On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I'm getting very close - sounds now work thanks to the tips below. I still > can't get music CDs to work. They will work when I log into X as root... > but that's not good. > > When I start the CD player, it says: > > Error accessing cdrom device. > Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel, > and that you have permission to access the device. > > Reason: Permission denied > > > Like I said before, it will play CDs when I log into X as root. I tried > changing the group of the CD program (gtcd) to audio, since my username is > now a member of the audio group, but it still gave the same error.
Perhaps you need to add yourself to the "disk" group (the group that owns disk drives) the same way you added yourself to the "audio" group. Glancing at my /etc/group file, it looks like that's what I did.. Tom
