On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:37:04AM -0800, brian r wrote: > > cdrom and audio: > > I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. It is a Pentium 150, > 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of > cd/audio/mp3 software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't read > audio cd's but I can mount data cds. > > If I run: I get the message: > Grip 2.91 "Unable to open the cd device. Please make..." > gtcd 1.0.51 "Error accessing the cdrome device.... > Reason: Permission denied." > similarly with other cd audio software. > > I have an internal, ATAPI cdrom. My fstab for cdrom is > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro.user,noauto 0 0 > And /dev/cdrom is soft-linked to /dev/hdc. > Permissions (when I do ls -l): > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root /cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc > > How do I fix this?
Just a guess: is the user that's trying to read the audio cd's not in group 'disk'? You could either make /dev/hdc world readable, or add your user to group disk (the preferred option). -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
