Perhaps the problem is that you are trying to access an IDE device (/dev/hdc or whatever your CD-ROM drive is) as a normal user that is not part of the disk group? Try adding yourself to disk, and see if that helps.
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:47:32PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having some trouble getting audio CDs to play as an unpriviledged > user. I am able to do so as root though, so it looks to me like a > permission problem. I am able to send various audio files to /dev/dsp > and /dev/audio as root. I have sound working in Ximian GNOME as a > normal user. I added my normal user account to the audio group, > thinking that this would solve the problem, but it didn't seem to. I > have changed permissions on a couple of the audio device files, but I > still seem to be having some trouble. changing the file access > permissions for /dev/mixer to 666 allowed me to start gmix (I was not > able to before). I'm just a little leary of changing all the files' > permissions, which was the primary reason for adding myself to the > audio group. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ Sorry... my mind has a few bad sectors.