Re: Can't play audio CD's

[Igor <igor_abrahao@itelefonica.com.br>]

Hi friend,

James Hosken wrote:

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> I've just got my sound card working by installing the 2.6.6 kernel. I've
> been using xmms to play some mp3s. But I can't play and audio CD's.

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> On checking the drive I get the error
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> "Failed to open device /dev/cdrom1
> Error: Permission denied
> Directory /mnt/dvd OK."

look at the message, you don't have permission, try ls -la /dev/cdrom1 
and ls-la
/dev/hdc. I know you're a menber of audio group, but you must find why
don't you have permission. Did you try to use /dev/cdrom like a link of 
/dev/hdc
instead /dev/cdrom1?

good luck,

Igor Abrahão
A Brazilian guy discovering the Debian world.