Even though I was a member of the group 'disk', which I thought would give me group rw rights to /dev/hdd, I discovered that I was wrong. Being in the 'disk' group didn't give me rw access. I discovered this by accident when, as root, I was testing out a fresh copy of cdparanoia. It worked! So, I tried the old copy and it worked to! Suddenly, Grip could see the CDROM. So, Chris, I added a+rw to /dev/hdd and I can use Grip as me. Thanks! Now I have to go back and see what it is about group priviledges that I don't understand. Anyone got a pair of functioning neurons they can sell me? My pair seems to have broken down and the replacement factory has shut down too! JLK On Saturday 10 March 2001 12:02, you wrote:
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Jerry Kreps wrote:
It's rw for the group "disk" and I'm in that group.
When I tried to rip my Mozart cds last night Grip couldn't see the CDROM. I tried KDE2 Kscd and neither could it.
As it turns out I can play cds ok using the KDE1 Kscd player. The KDE2 Kscd player is broken. When I wouldn't play I looked at the /dev/cdrom entry and saw that it was a link to /dev/hdd, which wasn't the way my previous installs of SuSE were set up. I haven't figured out why Grip won't see the CDROM yet.
On Saturday 10 March 2001 07:52, you wrote:
My cdrom is ok. The problem arose when I fired Grip to rip some more Motzart and it said it couldn't find my CD. So I fired Kscd<2> and it gave the same message. So, I thought my fstab was messed up and thats when I found the /hdd thing. In 7.0 and prior versions of SuSE my fstab had only /dev/cdrom /cdrom as the device and mount point, and the /dev directory didn't have any link to /hdd. So, I thought SuSE had messed up. On a lark I started trying other cd players. None of them worked except Kscd<1>.
I am going to check their configs and see why then don't see either /dev/cdrom or /hdd.
On Saturday 10 March 2001 05:58, you wrote:
Ok, I have heard about desperate, but this has jsut become ridiculous.....
Try: ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
now start kscd, xmcd or some other CD playing application. And.. enjoy.
Þann laugardagur 10 mars 2001 06:51 skrifaðir þú:
I know! It just shows you how desparate you get when something doesn't work!!! None of my music cd players work! Neither does Grip. In fact, it was Grip's failure to sense my cdrom when I fired it with Motzart in it that clued me to the fact that something was wrong. I next tried to just play the CD using the serveral players. None worked.
> Now, my CDROM is indeed the slave of ide1 BUT, NEVER, > before 7.1 has SuSE refered to it as /hdd in the fstab. > I've check my previous copies of fstab and they all > refer to /dev/cdrom (which was NOT a link to hdd).
I would agree that in the past /etc/fstab has referred to /dev/cdrom. However, I'm sure /dev/cdrom has been a link to /dev/hdd (in your case) for a while. For example, my SuSE 6.1 machine has /dev/cdrom as a link, as does my 7.0 installation. Maybe it's just me, but I'm sure it has been that way for a while.
> The fact remains that while YaST and YaST2 have no > trouble accessing the SuSE CDs, I can't play a music CD > because I can't mount it. I've tried to inmod and > modprove cdu31a, sonycd and cdu535. None work.
These are drivers for special, proprietry, CD-ROM type things.
> On Saturday 10 March 2001 00:21, you wrote: >> On Friday 09 March 2001 23:52, Jerry Kreps wrote: >> > In SuSE 7.0 what used to be in /etc/fstab was >> > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 >> > ro,noauto, user, exec 0 0 >> > >> > Here is what SuSE 7.1 put into /etc/fstab for my >> > cdrom: /dev/hdd /cdrom >> > auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 >> > >> > Obviously, my cdrom is not a harddisk so /dev/hdd >> > is not a correct device...
You could always change your /etc/fstab entry to /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto, user, exec 0 0 as before.
Check permissions, etc. as mentioned before, but I'm fairly certain there's some other problem here.
Bye, Chris