Grip won't see my cd

Dear All I am trying to rip & encode a cd. Grip will not see either of my drives (DVD or CDRecorder) while KAudioCreator does. I have a fresh install of SuSE 9.0 with all available updates. The only changes made are that i have downlaoded lame from Packman. My media directory contains: cdrecorder cdrom dvd floppy KAudioCreator is set to use /dev/cdrom and this works fine (ie it sees the drive but is really, really slow to rip and encode). Grip will not see anything if the Config -> CDRom device is set to /dev/cdrom. Any pointers gratefully recieved, Tim