Only root can use my cd-rom drive.
When I try to mount my cdrom as "user" it tells me that only root can mount /dev/cdrom. I am running Slackware 9.1, and loving it.
Thanks, njbrain@softhome.net |
You need to alter the fstab to allow users.
something like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0 |
Cool! it works! But, it still won't play music cd's
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Why? You don't mount CD's you can just play them through a CD player. You may have bad permissions in /dev thats preventing the use of CD's.
type ls -l /dev/cdrom and check that the user is a member of the same group ( you might have to follow the links to find the actual group of the device. ) |
This was the outcome of that command,
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 15 09:47 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc I know that you don't mount music cd to play them, I found that out the hard way! But when I start kde, kscd pops up in my face and says that I dont have permission to access the cdrom drive, but data cd's work just fine. |
check the permissions on:
ls -l /dev/hdc it will probably come up with something like brw-rw---- 1 root cdrecording 22, 64 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hdc so you need to add your user to cdrecording or whatever the group actually is, the command: adduser youruser thegroup Will do this for you. |
Alright, I did what you said, and I don't get an error message anymore, but kscd won't run!
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Check the control center under sound & multmedia, Audio CD's add check everthings correct. Especially the autodetect device, It might be worth setting this yourself.
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