Hi Damon,
I'm a beginner just as you and first of all, i have to say i've no answers
for your probs. I'm also trying to copy cd's for more than a week. I also
sent mails to this list which i couldn't get any replies. But with some of
my mails i got enough replies to solve my problem or at least, make things
clear. I think the problem in here is a) you can't send enough info about
your problem and b) this list has an unbeleivable daily volume.
Anyway, did you try cdparanoia to rip tracks on the console first? Maybe
it's just a problem with the grip.
Have a good day?
Damon Register
16.12.2002 16:40
Please respond to damon.w.register
To: SuSE Linux
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Subject: [SLE] no escape from Gates?
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?
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?
[rant on]
The really frustrating thing is that though I believe some of these
problems to be simple ones, I get zero response. Also I find that
these issues are VERY common but information scarce or incomplete.
I feel that the Linux community is too secretive at times. Why do
I see very long threads about disk polishing or YaST 1 vs YaST 2
but zero answers to what I believe are simple questions about
devices? Why is it so often I see in FAQs or posts that critical
details are omitted? Sometimes I have seen over time that there
are many posts on a subject that could be answered if a FAQ contained
sufficient information for the reader to be able to solve his
problems. A good example is CD ripping. There is a FAQ at
http://dinamizm.ath.cx/articles/cdrip.html that covers the subject
but has several errors and is also lacking information that could
help the reader to deal with exceptions. According to the SuSE
8.0 manual and posts in this list, typing audiocd:/ in Konqueror
will let me rip CDs but neither the SuSE book or the posts have
bothered to mention prerequisites that would allow this to work.
Another great example is something really simple: symbolic links.
I could find information in "Running Linux" (O'Reilly?) on creating
a symbolic link but the writer didn't bother to mention how to
get rid of a link. This is really stupid. How can a beginner
be expected to guess that rm is the way to get rid of a link?
[rant off]
Damon Register
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