Hi, im new to this community

The thing is, i couldn't play audio cd's, even though i could read any file from a cd. So, i do what i always do when i have a dilema, i used the mighty power of google. Google send to a thread in this forum. The solution on that thread was to add the user to the disk group by editing the /etc/groups file, so i did, and the "problem" was fixed.

Now, the question is, was that the correct procedure for the problem i had ?

On another thread it said that i also should add the user to the sys group, that seemed not so safe, but anyway just adding to the disk group did the trick.


Thanks

May be you did not unmuted the mixer ?
Try running alsamixer from the shell, and set up your favourite volume levels for PCM, CD, and so on..
Then as root
alsactl store
will save this settings.
Ciao

You could create a new group especially for accessing /dev/hdc, like 'cdrom'. Then do a chown on /dev/hdc and add users to that group. That way you can safeguard harddisks etc from being accessed by users that need to play audiocds.

Hi man!
i dont think u need to do that.
Just try change the permissions

# chmod 666 /dev/dsp
# chmod 666 /dev/audio
# chmod 666 /dev/sequencer
# chmod 666 /dev/mixer
# chmod 666 /dev/midi

i think this will work!

That would work, but it also rather unsafe (i.e., your ignorant little brother could blow up your installation). It's always a good idea to restrict usage of resources to people who really really need them and not let just any regular joe access or fiddle around with them. For a better example: it's a rather bad idea to let remote-access accounts play sounds, for obvious reasons: They can't hear them, and if the computer is in your room it's rather annoying to be woken up by some dude playing an mp3.