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Re: Getting the CD player to play CD's

From: Fábio Olivé Leite (foleiteyahoo.com.br)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 15:01:43 CDT

Em Qua 02 Jul 2003 16:17, Chris escreveu:
> > The user is non-root, and was wondering if I chmod /dev/cd0a to
> > 777 , might this correct the issue?

/me jumps up from the chair and fetches his glasses.

Yes it would correct the issue, but no, you don't want to do that.
It's like the only-tool-hammer-all-problems-nail thing.

> question is KsCD, it's default is /dev/acd0c - I go into the
> settings and change it to /dev/cd0a and I get the before mentioned
> errors even still.

Oh, I've been bitten by that as well. If you "ls -l /dev/cd0*" you'll
see that the devices are readable if you are in the operator group.
Add your user to this group and logout/login. Presto. :-)

HTH,

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