I've looked through here and other sections and have aquired a nice series of bruises from beating my head against the wall trying to figure this out. Google is getting annoyed.

Sigh.

I've put in music cd and try to play using KsCD. I end up getting told that there is no cd or I do not have permissions. Is there a better player to use? (I've tried XMMS but when I ask it to check the drive it says permissions denied)

I think I'm missing something for my /dev/cdrom line... anyone have suggestions?

Add group root to your user and see if that helps.

RO

thats what mine looks like:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
and it works
try this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,umask=000 0 0
or this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner 0 0

Dumb question but why would I want my regular user part of the root group? Isn't that a security risk?

kasperhans, I tried them all to no avail. =(

hmm ok i think you did a reboot after changing the fstab each time or? ok so now i have no clue what this could be :/ have to think about it but if you try to play the music from cd as root it works right?

Haven't tried it as root since I don't normally log in as root (I try to avoid that but I certainly can try it) -- await for an edit to this as I go and tries that.

Been busy with other things like networksetup but got kscd up last night,
and listened to Ry Cooder-Bop Till You Drop a couple times.

I'll tell you what I have and what I did.

I'm running slack-9.1

I have a burner so I use append="hdb=ide-scsi" in my /etc/lilo.conf
and end up with my cddrive on /dev/scd0, I use /dev/scdo as /mnt/cdrw, and used

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

to create a cdrom device and then made an entry in fstab for it.

My fstab lines in this box look like this:

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw auto noauto,owner,users 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,users,ro 0 0

Probably not the best thing but being lazy and hasty /dev/scd0 was set for permission
as such 777 and /mnt/cdrom has permission 755.

Users (thats me) must be member of "sys" group to access /dev/dsp for sound

You will also have to configure alsa if you haven't already; so "su" and run the command

alsaconf

then follow the prompts. I use aumix for adjustments but there is also alsamixer
which you can access as a user to tweek your alsa configuration.

Finally there is kscd which is what I useually use when listening to cd's on the box.

After opening kscd you will have to tell it where to access your cd. I have my kscd set
to /dev/cdrom

This version of kde confused me first time round because kscd will dock as an icon in the
sytem tray unless you untick the radio button in the configuration menu. I couldn't figure out where it was and why it was playing.

Also there is a radio button to stop playing on exit. That threw me until I figured out it was not tic'd :>)

Hope that helps

Rick

We have a "weiner"!

I change the perms on /dev/hdc to 755 (just need read and execute) and *poof* sound. I also added the line for the device directly...

Many thanks.

Ok so u cant mount it at all??? instead of just trying to play it with ksCD try to mount it then open xmms and select all the files or is that what u did?? If u know what i mean? Also i think u can make ur fstab to

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,pid=1001 0 0

thats what i did change pid=1001 to whatever ur user number is. I hope this helps!!

Matt3333

IIRC, audio CDs have no filesystem. You cannot mount them.

I'm not saying this because I'm a guru or anything, I just remember wondering why I couldn't mount audio CDs awhile back. Did a google search and found the info I mentioned.

In KsCD, set the cd to /dev/sr0.
After I did that I could play CDs.