David C. Rankin schreef:
Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hi, I installed OS11.1 (with kde 3) on my laptop and I found I could not read audio-cd's. When I put in an audio-cd, the system recognises it ("my computer" shows "Audio-cd") but I can't play it. If I open it in konquerer there are no files. I can eject the disk. Another time, it showed a message when I tried to open it in konquerer : "device has no reading rights for this account, check the reading rights for the device" (translation from Dutch). When I insert a data-cd or data-dvd, everything seems OK. I didn't try yet with a video-dvd. Enclosed the outputs of lsscsi, hwinfo --cdrom end wodim -scanbus.
I don't like to add myself (or other users) to the disk-group as I see that this has rw-access to /dev/sdax and I think that's not safe).
So I would like some help.
Have you applied all updates yet? I thought that issue was fixed? If not, then adding yourself to the cdrom group is the temporary workaround
Hi David, I made myself member of the cdrom-group, but this does not work. Could you explain why it should work ? Because no device is member of group cdrom : ls -l /dev/* | grep sr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 feb 12 2009 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 feb 12 2009 /dev/cdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 feb 12 2009 /dev/dvd -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 feb 12 2009 /dev/dvdrw -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 feb 12 2009 /dev/scd0 -> sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 feb 12 2009 /dev/sr0 Or are there extended access rights ? B.T.W. I tried as root, and there it "works". With this I mean I can access the audio-cd, but I'm having problems with amarok, but that's another thread. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong