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Re: Can't play audio CD's






From: Mark Par <markp@ph.inter.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't play audio CD's
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:02:18 +0800

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.


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There is another group called "disk" or something like that. You need to belong to that group as well to be able to place audio cds. I had a similar problem over the weekend and once I added my name to that group, everything worked.

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