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I recently bought a laptop, and installed 12.2 on it root will read the instruction manual, but I cannot get anything other than a very long warning message on the user. I suspect that I have not include the user in the right group to have access to the CD/DVD drive, can anyone advise me please?
I have some other problems with acpi and two of the USB ports having <access denied> but I'll deal withmy problems one at a time.
I recently bought a laptop, and installed 12.2 on it root will read the instruction manual, but I cannot get anything other than a very long warning message on the user. I suspect that I have not include the user in the right group to have access to the CD/DVD drive, can anyone advise me please?
I have some other problems with acpi and two of the USB ports having <access denied> but I'll deal withmy problems one at a time.
Having gone back through my installation notes for previous versions of Slackware I have found that I needed to add my users to the groups cdrom which I had done and plugdev which I hadn't, so I've solved that problem, thanks to all.
No, Don't do that!
It'll change your initial group, which is a bad idea
To add a user to a group use, gpasswd (Yes, I know, the command name doesn't quite fit the function in this case, but its the right command for the job)
e.g.
Code:
gpasswd -a <userid> cdrom
where <userid> is your userid. and in this case the group is cdrom.
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