HI, im relatively new to linux, so im going to give you pro's all the info i can, which still wont be enough. heh. Anyway. I'm having trouble installing games with cedega. As a user, i can read cd's, but if i try to cedega install a game, i get a "please insert disk" error. Doesn't matter what game. If i su to root, the install goes fine, but a new transgaming drive is made in my root forlder and i have to su to play the game. I installed a game as root (edited root transgaming config to point to my user home), then went back to user to play the game (when the game installed, it made the folder owned by root, so i changed owner to user). Ran cedega game.exe and it says insert disk. su to root and cedega game.exe it runs fine.

From the cedega howto i did this:

If you do not know what devices and mount points are being used by your
system, you can read the /etc/fstab file for more information using the
following command:

$ less /etc/fstab

To change the permissions on your CD-ROM device and mount points, execute the
following commands as 'root':

# chmod a+r [CD-ROM Device]
# chmod a+rx [CD-ROM mount point]

Many distributions of Linux use symbolically linked devices. You will also
need to change permissions on the linked devices as well. To see if a device
is linked run the following command:

$ ls -la [CD-ROM Device]

This command will return information that may resemble the following:

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Aug 21 14:45 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0

If the output displays a -> then this device is linked. In the above output the
device /dev/cdrom is symbolically linked to the device /dev/cdrom/cdroms/cdrom0.
Be sure to change the permissions on all linked devices.

Still, as a user, i apperently cant run programs.

fstab says this:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

Im beating my head against the wall here, because as much a noob i am, i do know i shouldnt be running anything, including games, as root. Any help please?

Well ... what are the actual permissions on the
cdrom-raw-device?

ls -l <device>



Cheers,
Tink

Thank you for your reply Tink. I appreciate your help. here is what the device says:

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 25 07:47 /dev/hdd
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 25 07:47 /dev/hdc

It looks like you just need to change your permissions and/or ownership.

If your the only user on your box, then I would try:
chown yourUserName /dev/hdd
chgrp yourGroupName /dev/hdd
and similarly:
chown yourUserName /dev/hdc
chgrp yourGroupName /dev/hdc

which should work

Actually those perms are rather odd ...

If these devices are links (which the l at the
start of the line suggests) they would normally
be w, too ...

what does ls -lL on the same device(s) give?

The ownerships would have been OK btw,
XsuX suggestion is overkill ...



Cheers,
Tink

*sigh*. I dont get it. when i open konqueror i right click on cdrom. under owner it says blackhawk (my username). when i insert a cd, i wait for it to finish loading, right click on it, and now it says owner root. what the heck is going on? I change nothing. just insert the cd and it automatically changes the owner to root, and i cant run anyhing from cd.

lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 26 06:01 /dev/hdc -> ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 26 06:01 /dev/hdd -> ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
brwxr----- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
brwxr--r-- 1 root cdrom 22, 64 Dec 31 1969 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd

This is probably all pretty screwy by now....

Freaking FINALLY. I went to harddrake and told it to supermount. seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the help TInk

Wish I could have been of more assistance ... :)

And this case once again proves my suspicions
against MDK and their wizards and supermount
right ;) ...

Stuff like that just wouldn't happen with Slack
or Debian.



Cheers,
Tink