Thanks to everyone who answered. The problem was, in fact, a combination of insufficiennt permissions and my flawed reasoning -- as was suggested by many of the replies.
Joe On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:37:45PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 12.59 schrieb Joe Paxton: > > Hello: > > > > Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data > > cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) > > audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is > > not needed) > > Correct. > > > , but rather, when I put an audio cd in the drive, and do 'cd > > /cdrom' and then 'ls' I see nothing in the drive (and so when I try to > > add that directory to the XMMS playlist, for example, nothing is added). > > Since you can't mount an audio CD you wont see anything in /cdrom since > /cdrom is just a simple directory. > > Try adding the device file to your xmms playlist (ie /dev/hdc or > whatever your cdrom is). This will allow xmms raw access to the cdrom > if permissions permit it. > > HTH > -- > > Matthias Hentges > Cologne / Germany > > [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated > ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's > > My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
