I have a fresh install of 10.1 and have been slowly configuring it step by step. I ran alsamix to unmute and set the levels and this worked fine. I edited /etc/fstab for users to access the cdrom and made user a member of the audio and cdrom group. However, when I run KsCD as a user it throws out a permisions error and will not work It works fine as root.

I use XFCE as my main wm and have notice that KsCD runs at startup and has an icon/applet on the task bar. If I right click and select "quit" it does close, but comes back again next session. Any ideas how to shut it down?

I have managed to lock up the entire system i.e. no mouse or keyboard input. I had to power off to get the system back. It happened whilst using Mozilla and launching the BBC Player (uses Real Player 10 that I have installed). I did try to replicate it but could not do it, the player works fine. The only additions to a clean install are mozilla plugins and 3 new items for the xfce panel.

Try giving yourself read permissions to the cd drive.

I have made myself a member of the CDROM group and given all users access via /etc/fstab. Is there somewhere that I have missed?

what I meant was try using chmod to give all users read permissions to the cdrom device e.g.
#chmod a+r /dev/hdc (change to the right cd device for your system).

I found using Slackware 10.0 that I needed to assign my local user to the audio group. I then check to make sure that the appropriate devices are also assigned to the audio group. Doing things this way does not bypass the intended security levels of the filesystem.

As root, add yourself to the audio group by editing /etc/group file. Just add your username beside the audio entry. I also add myself to the cdrom and video groups.

Next, check the following files in /dev to see that the group is set to the audio group:
/dev/mixer
/dev/dsp
/dev/audio

While here, I also set the /dev/cdrom to the cdrom group. I also add whatever /dev/cdrom is symlinked to to the cdrom group as well (i.e. /dev/hdc).

Working through these permissions has always cleared up the initial problems I have had with sound on a new slackware install.

Bob

Many thanks for the replys. I recall having a similar problem when I did my last Slackware install (9.1. about 18 months ago). I have a spare partition and decided that rather than break my exiting system I would do a fresh install and make extensive notes so that I never have to bother you kind folks again

i assume that you have no problem playing sound files, and only playing CDs? i have that problem too. An easy way around it is to rip the cd and just play the ripped files. This is the lazy man's solution.

Got it sorted now. Followed the tips above and everything now works fine