Hello: Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev"
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jun 17 06:55 adsp -> sound/adsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 12 Jun 17 06:55 agpgart -> misc/agpgart lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jun 17 06:55 audio -> sound/audio lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 17 06:55 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 cdroms drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 discs drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 17 06:55 dri lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Jun 17 06:55 dsp -> sound/dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jun 17 06:55 dvd -> /dev/hdc drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 floppy drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 usb Is this the reason why I cannot play dvd movies? TIA, -- Qv6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list