Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

["Rosanne DiMesio" <dimesio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thought I'd post the answer, since the problem turned out to be the way
Yast2 had set some things up, and mine was a default installation.

First, I had to add myself to the disk group - Yast2 hadn't done it.

Second, Yast2 had both /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/sr0.
I don't know why, shouldn't /dev/cdrom have pointed to /dev/scd0, or am I
misunderstanding things?  In any case, the permissions for /dev/scd0 are
what needed to be changed - once I gave the group (disk) write access for
it, autodetect worked. It also works to simply enter /dev/scd0 as the audio
io slave.

Now, a question. In the process of trying to fix this, I discovered that
the owner and group for /dev/sr0 changes according to who I'm logged in as.
If I log in as root, the owner and group are root. If l log in as myself, I
am the owner and users is the group. Log in as another user, that user is
the owner with users as group. This is not the case with any of my other
drives, all of which are root owner and disk group regardless of who I log
in as. Is this typical for Linux, or is it another Yast2 setup peculiarity?
Any explanation as to why a cdwriter would be set up this way, and not any
other drives? 





Rosanne
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