On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:40, Damon Register wrote:
I am well aware that this list is free and voluntary and that no one is under any obligation to solve my problems so please don't think that I am unhappy with the people in this list. As I have said in other posts, I would really like to be able to leave the Gates world but so far this has not been possible. Still I am running into a lot of little problems that keep me going to Windows to get certain tasks done because I still can't solve these problems with SuSE.
I think a lot of my problems are permission related but I can't solve them without a little help. With a little detective work I was able to find from fstab and Konqueror file manager all the relationships between CD drives and names. From Konqueror I find that /cdrom is a link to /media/cdrom. fstab shows me that /media/cdrom is a mount point for /dev/cdrom and Konqueror shows me that /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/sr0. Great, now I have the chain but what do I do with this in order to get grip to work for a normal (not root) user? What permissions must be set? You need to set write permissions for /dev/sg0 to allow write. If you are the only one running the machine, you can do this and see if this helps you out. chmod a+rw /dev/sg0. This should allow anyone to rip CD's from Grip and Konqueror. (I'm sure that I will get slammed on this one) Why does the IDE DVD drive work with no adjustments while the SCSI CD-RW not work for a normal user but does work for root. Is it possibly the SCSI controller that needs permission adjustment? If so, how do I find what is the /dev and what permission must be set? What are you trying to do? If you are trying to burn CD's, then you need to change permissions on the programs.
snipped rant/ I know that the learning curve is very hard to do. I come from a heavy Windows background myself. (Former MCSE). But I have used Linux for a while now and I do agree with some of your points! I have had things along the way that frustrated the living h e double hocky sticks out of me but I still keep on trying (because I'm hardheaded and persistant!). Alot of people feel that one should look at the archives and see if your qusestion was anwsered before. But when you are very frustrated and would like some help, that is the anwser that you get? Hmmmm I would blow my top too! You may write to me off list and I will attempt to help you out in any way that I can. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."