On Sat Apr 20, 2002 at 11:49:11AM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > > > > I appreciate the response. Now I know it's *supposed* to work the way > > I've got it configured. So I tried it as root, and it works. Do I need > > to add my normal user to the "disk" group? > > > > Kent > > On my system /dev/audio and /dev/mixer belong to group audio, and > /dev/scd0 which, /dev/cdrom points to by way of /dev/cdrom0, belongs to > group cdrom. So I added myself to groups audio and cdrom. > who knows. Linux is such a convoluted ball of worms you could spend your whole life just trying to get ordinary mundane trivial little things to work.
I'm in the audio group, xmms is configured properly, I can rip & encode from cd to mp3 using grip, xmms can see the tracks on a cd & convert them to their proper names via freedb, but neither I nor root can get any sound when trying to play a Cd. I give up. CraigW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
