tyme Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 an answer to this may also be helpful in trouble shooting: Exactly how do they "not work"? ...cd playing app not recognizing them? or just no sound? :P EDIT: added, no change. Did you logout and back in? For group changes to take effect you have to either logout/in, or source /etc/profile in a terminal and start the app you want to test it with from that same terminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 You're supposed to be able to read my mind. :P It still can't find the dvd drive unless I launch the program as root. When I launch it as root I have sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 ok .. try editing /etc/group* and add yourself to everything that looks interesting cdrom/dvd/audio/sound/any other groups that might have some affect/wheel (of course) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 I was going to suggest adding yourself to the disk group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 mysti: are we sure /dev/hdc is the right device? could you mount a data cd and give us the output of mount to make sure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 There is no output. It's just localhost mystified # mount /mnt/cdrom localhost mystified # And if you look at /etc/fstab you'll see that /mnt/cdrom is linked to /dev/hdc /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto unhide,noauto,ro,user 00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 no no, don't try to mount it, after you've mounted it run simply the command mount with no additional arguments. This will list all of the currently mounted devices and where they've been mounted at. Besides, you shouldn't have to actually issue a mount command anymore...gentoo should be using hal/dbus and automatically detecting and mounting your removable devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 You said to mount it. :P Here's the output of mount with a data cd in the drive: /dev/hda7 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) /dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/mandrake type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda6 on /mnt/mandrake/home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda9 on /mnt/lfs type reiserfs (rw,noatime) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) no /dev/hdc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 mount it...and then after you've mounted it, do just the mount command. that's what i was asking you to do before...mount it, then run mount with it mounted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 localhost mystified # mount /dev/hda7 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec) /dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/mandrake type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda6 on /mnt/mandrake/home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda9 on /mnt/lfs type reiserfs (rw,noatime) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,unhide) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 so it's mounted, look in /mnt/cdrom? what app are you trying to get to recognise it anyway? James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 as she said earlier in the thread she can read data cd's, but music cd's won't play except as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 as she said earlier in the thread she can read data cd's, but music cd's won't play except as root. oh...... then permissions? is the user in the 'optical' group? "gpasswd -a username optical" to add, then relogin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 no, there is no optical group...already covered earlier in the thread ;) (we looked over all the groups on her system) we have narrowed it down to most likely a permissions issue, but, we're stuck as to what permissions...do you know if dbus/hal is at all involved in the playing/recognizing of music cd's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 no, there is no optical group...already covered earlier in the thread ;) (we looked over all the groups on her system) we have narrowed it down to most likely a permissions issue, but, we're stuck as to what permissions...do you know if dbus/hal is at all involved in the playing/recognizing of music cd's? dbus has nothing to do with it, except some applications *may* (and should now, but not all do) query HAL (via dbus of course) to find out what CD drives exist on the system, rather than looking themselves. Could mysti do an "ls /dev/hd*" ? I'd like to see the permissions on the drive. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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