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Re: Audio CDs with XMMS



On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:29:09PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:41:06PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > for most audio cd players you have to change the permissions on your
> > /dev/cdrom so that it is readable to everyone.  Have you done 'chmod a+r
> > /dev/cdrom'?)  That made it work for me.  Also, IIRC the xmms-cdread
> 
> just wonadering -- since I think I've been having a similar problem
> with freeamp -- is changing the permissions on /dev/cdrom good enough,
> or do the permissions on the original device (in my case, hdd) also
> have to be changed?  The permisisons on the /dev/cdrom I have are: 
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jul  3 08:58 /dev/cdrom -> hdd

The permissions on a symlink aren't relevant - you only need to look at
its target.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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