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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:13:57 +0000
From:      rob <europax@home.com>
To:        Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
Cc:        Jean-Marc Huck <jm.huck@free.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: about /dev/cdrom...
Message-ID:  <39C8FE65.220135F3@home.com>
References:  <39C91D0C.B47A2722@free.fr> <000901c0235a$a05f41c0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>

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Some CD players require an envirenment variable to be set:  e.g.
export CDPLAYER=/dev/acd0c              or something similar         
Rob.


Siegbert Baude wrote:
> 
> Hello Jean-Marc,
> 
> > Xmms or any other cdplayer doesn't work, unless I log in as
> > root. (I get an empty box when I try to open then audio cd directory)
> >
> > Which way can i mount a cd when not logged in as root ?
> >
> > entrie in /etc/fstab
> > 2 2  /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto
> >
> > permissions for /cdrom and mount_cd9660
> > drwxr-xr-x  2  root  wheel    512 Jun  5 00:41 cdrom
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1  root  wheel  61708 Mar 20 2000 mount_cd9660
> >
> > What do i forget ?
> 
> For playing audio-discs, the CDs arenīt mounted (they arenīt in ISO9660
> format). Therefore the permissions for mount and /cdrom are irrelevant.
> Check the permissions on /dev/acd0c and look in the configuration of the
> CD-player-plugin within xmms, if the correct device is set there.
> 
> > You can probably guess i'm not an english native speaker ; so can you
> > tell me what "IMHO" means ?
> 
> "in my humble opinion".
> 
> Ciao
> Siegbert
> 
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