CDs Only Play Under Root
 

I'm setting up my first Linux distro (Slackware 9.1) and am quickly being surprised by how obvious things are often NOT (I taught myself emacs and then proudly modified the lilo.conf file to decrease the time spent on the lilo screen during bootup - turns out lilo doesn't read the lilo.conf file during bootup - you have to reinstall lilo! - quite obvious in retrospect).

Anyway, my problem:

When I try to play CDs with the GNOME CD player, I get a message (from within the program) that there is a disk error. However, when I log in under root, I am able to play the CDs (the CD player claims it is playing the CD and correctly tells me the number of minutes on each track - I don't have sound yet, but I'm saving that problem for when I get the CD player working under my user name). Even though you cannot mount a music CD, I edited the fstab file so that under CD it set says user instead of owner. This did not help. Is there some sort of permissions on the CD drive I don't know about?

Thanks,

Brian

have you checked the permissions on /dev/cdrom and the device it points to?

do "ls -l /dev/cdrom" to see where /dev/cdrom points

read this to learn about permissions:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...ownership.html

:cool:

Checked Permissions
 

I checked. The complete text is as follows:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 12 15:43 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

So, everyone has permission, and /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc as it should!\

Hmmm... Other ideas?

Brian

I've never got the gnome cd player to work. Totem works. Have you got Totem?

did you check the permissions on /dev/hdc?

"ls -l /dev/hdc"

Permissions to /dev/hdc
 

I checked permissions to /dev/hdc:

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Jun 9 2002 /dev/hdc

Ah hah!

I changed the permissions:

chmod 666 /dev/hdc

and it works!

Thanks for your help!

Brian

welcome
:cool:

I have a similar problem kinda. I am trying to see and read data files and mpeg files off of my cd-rom. I dont have any problems with playing music or dvds to play mussic i installed xmms and it works fine to play dvds i used apt-get to get mplayer 9 and it works great with dvds my cd is as scd0 and i checked all the permisions and across the board for the users exept the root it says rw- i used the chmod 666/dev/scd0 to change permisions is there anything else i just want to read my data cd-roms i have written on my old windows xp machine and some mpeg video files i downloaded and put on cd-rom i cant get mplayer to play them becuase nothing is showing up on the cdrom mnt folder my distro is red hat 9 (shrike) i am a newbie and working hard to get knowledge. please help me

First of all you should start a new thread and/or search. I will go ahead and give a go at this...you are mounting the cdroms in order to see the data, right? That is the only thing that I can think of that would be getting in your way. You never have to mount music/dvds.

Oh and by the way to the original poster if you were to add your user to the group data, then you wouldn't have to change the hdc permissions to world readable.

sweet that did it i had to mount it with your leading i put this in the terminal $ mount /dev/cdrom
then after that in my x-windows in the /mnt/cdrom directory all my files showed up
thankyou again

Try it
 

# chmod 777 /mnt/cdrom
# chmod 666 /dev/hdc

after open the file etc/fstab and where you find the word "owner" you delete and put "user".

it worked out with me! :D

ok now next thing on my list is this recompile mplayer --disable-detecting-cpu for optimal performance how would i do that and is it really necessary ??