Rudder wrote: snip my original inquiry
Does the player show the number of tracks on the CD. If not, try it as root. If it works for root and not for an ordinary user, you need to give your user permission. Info on how to do this is built into the player. Click around to find it.
This was the problem for me the first time I installed 7.1. When I repartioned and reinstalled a couple of weeks later after a motherboard went south, the player worked "right out of the box."
The difference apparently was the install. The first one was cranky due to the motherboard starting to go, which required some manual tweaking. The second was flawless.
Yes, the player display shows the number of tracks on the disk, and I can skip form track to track. It also ticks off the elapsed time the track has been "playing." I've also tried to play CDs as root with the same result. I did have to change permissions on /dev/cdrom to get the player to see the disk. George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict!" John Gribbin