Hello again, I am having troubles to see cd-rom videos with Xine when I log in with simple user account I can't see any video. Xine shows me a message like this:
There is no mrl.

But when I log in as root I can see that videos.
I created other simple user accounts and I got the same problem, just I can see my videos with root account.

check out the linux magazine site. There is a tutorial. Try it. I have not had any luck so far. If you do please post it as i also need help on that.

Have you checked this similar thread?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...950#post642950

Cheers, Leon.

have you checked your user's permissions? i don't mean the permissions of the binary executable, i mean the permissions of your /dev/cdrom.

possible solutions:

-either make them accessible to everyone

chmod 666 /dev/cdrom

-or put your user in the "cdrom" group. you can do it manually editing /etc/group or from within KDE (there's an utility whose name i don't remember)

good luck!

Thanx you everyone for your replies, I tried first to put the klez user in cdrom group, but it didn't worked.

After I did this:

#ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-02-12 06:42 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb

Till this moment my xine didn't work yet, then I have make this:
#chmod 666 /dev/cdrom

and then worked, and when I do this:
# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-02-12 06:42 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb

What was wrong? Or what was happenning?

Thanx to everybody!!!

Hi

The reason you see all the permissions of /dev/cdrom set as "read-write for all" is that /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link pointing to /dev/hdb. So, as to say it, a symlink does not have permissions. The permissions you set are those of the thing that symlink points to. In this case, /dev/hdb. Normally, the permissions of it should be 660. Most probably the permissions for your /dev/hdb WERE 660 -and this is why you weren't able to access the Cd drive as user-. This means root and anyone in the proper group should have permissions to mess with it. If you are in a secure environment you should give you (and your club members e.g. girlfriend ), access to the proper group so non-club-members (e.g your girlfriend's little sister) should be left outside . But in a domestic environment it's just better to chmod it 666. This means that everyone has access to /dev/hdb. (or whatever device your optical drive is).

Oh, thank you very much Folkenfanel for your reply, I was a bit confused about that, but now I understand that, thanx again, and thanx to everybody replied to help me to find the solution.