My wife's computer (catherine) has a combo drive. When I go to "Computer" in nautilus on my computer I see "Floppy Drive", "CDRW/DVD-ROM Drive", "Filesystem", and "Network". When she goes to "Computer" on hers, she only sees "Filesystem" and "Network". Granted she doesn't have a floppy drive. Her combo drive is not listed. When she logs in as root she can mount CDs and the icon for the combo drive will appear both on her desktop and on the "Computer" listing in nautilus. On my computer, it's there in "Computer" whether or not I have a CD mounted. My wife complained to me that she could not play music CDs. I checked /etc/group on her computer, and she is in the cdrom group:
catherine ~ # cat /etc/group | grep 'cdrom' cdrom:x:19:amy,michael,haldaemon My question is why is the cdrom not available to user "amy" when root has not mounted a CD and what do I have to do to get it where she can use it without being root? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
