CD Player isuue

TryAFrog · 04-20-2005, 11:25 PM

Hello all,
I'm fairly new to the Linux world and have come across an issue with the gnome-cd. When I attempt to play an audio CD it gives me a drive error. If I log on as root it works fine...any thoughts? It worked a couple days ago and I have changed nothing.

reddazz · 04-21-2005, 02:47 AM

You need to give yourself read permission to the drive e.g. chmod a+r /dev/hdc.

TryAFrog · 04-21-2005, 01:12 PM

that worked, thanks. Any idea why it would have changed on me???

bewildered1 · 04-21-2005, 03:46 PM

I am having a similar problem with my DVD burner. My software gives some sort of disk error and will not play either CD's or DVD's. However, files are visible when I check the drive.

If your suggestion will fix my problem where do I find "chmod a+r /dev/hdc"?

reddazz · 04-22-2005, 03:33 AM

The commands I posted above, give all users permission to read files from the optical drive named /dev/hdc. The command has to be run as root in a terminal. If your optical drive is not /dev/hdc then you need to enter the right device name.

reddazz · 04-22-2005, 03:34 AM

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Originally posted by TryAFrog
that worked, thanks. Any idea why it would have changed on me???

No idea, but its happended to me a few times.

bewildered1 · 04-22-2005, 08:27 AM

Thanks. The solution solved part of the problem. I can now play CD's. However, DVD's are still a mystery. The desktop icon labels the DVD disk as new and the software (Helix) hasn't a clue. Where do I go now?

reddazz · 04-22-2005, 08:54 AM

You need to install a multimedia player like Xine (you can use kaffeine or totem as a frontend) or Mplayer. You then need to install libdvdcss. You can get these packages using yum or apt if you configure them to use the freshrpms or dag rpm repositories.