Re: Can't play audio CD's

[Mark Par <markp@ph.inter.net>]

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:39:22 +0100, James Hosken wrote:
> 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.

[...]

> I've got a DVD and a CD-RW setup as
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Nov 26  2003 cdrom1 -> hdc
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Feb 12 21:34 cdrom2 -> scd0
> 
> I'm a member of the following grups
> james cdrom audio www-data src

[....]

> On checking the drive I get the error
> 
> "Failed to open device /dev/cdrom1
> Error: Permission denied
> Directory /mnt/dvd OK."
> 
> Please could some one tell me what I need to do to get this working.

Make sure /dev/hdc or /dev/scd0 is a member of the cdrom group.