Re: potato installs and the aftermath
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0800, brian r wrote:
>
> cdrom and audio:
>
> I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. It is a Pentium 150,
> 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of
> cd/audio/mp3 software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't read
> audio cd's but I can mount data cds.
>
> If I run: I get the message:
> Grip 2.91 "Unable to open the cd device. Please make..."
> gtcd 1.0.51 "Error accessing the cdrome device....
> Reason: Permission denied."
> similarly with other cd audio software.
>
> I have an internal, ATAPI cdrom. My fstab for cdrom is
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro.user,noauto 0 0
> And /dev/cdrom is soft-linked to /dev/hdc.
> Permissions (when I do ls -l):
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root /cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc
>
> How do I fix this?
Just a guess: is the user that's trying to read the audio cd's not in
group 'disk'? You could either make /dev/hdc world readable, or add your
user to group disk (the preferred option).
--
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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