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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:21:12 -0400
From:      Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org, David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
Subject:   Re: How to get audio CDs working?
Message-ID:  <7461I73UR3VA0DCGA1YXVHBNLD9TP05.3d9798f8@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <20020929195310.GF32176@thingy.apana.org.au>

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9/29/2002 3:53:10 PM, David Gerard 
<fun@thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

>
>Kevin Golding (kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) [020930 
05:37]:
>
>> Have you double-checked the permissions?  I 
remember puzzling why I
>> couldn't play audio CDs until I stumbled upon the fact 
that only root
>> had read access for some reason.
>
>
>Do you mean on /dev/acd* ? I would presume this is for 
a reason.
>
>Tried changing the permissions to a+r, still couldn't play 
CDs or get
>dagrab to work. Er, what precisely did you do, step by 
step?
>
>
>- d.

Some apps like to see your CD player at /dev/cdrom.  Try 

ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/cdrom

If it tells you the device exists, delete /dev/cdrom and do 
the above again.  Then 

chmod 666 /dev/acd0c

Hope this helps,

Jud



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