KDE 2.0: The CD Player Does not Work
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Applies to
SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 7.2
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Therefore some of the informations given in this article may
be outdated or the article may contain stale links.
Symptom
You have downloaded KDE version 2.0 from our FTP server but the
CD player (kscd) cannot access your CD-ROM drive. However,
the entries corresponding to the device in the CD player settings
are correct.
Cause
The file permissions for the device file of your CD-ROM drive are wrong.
That is why the CD player cannot find any CD.
Solution
Find out the device file for your CD-ROM drive by entering the following command
on the command line:
ls -l /dev/cdrom
The output line/s will be similar to this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 6 12:25 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb is therefore the device file for the CD-ROM drive in this example.
Now we will modify the permissions for this file according to our needs. Please
proceed as follows:
-
Login as root in the command line by entering the command su
and then answering the password request.
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Now enter chmod 640 /dev/hdb to assign access rights for your
CD-ROM drive to the group.
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Then assign your CD-ROM drive to the group "disk" by executing the command
chgrp disk /dev/hdb.
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Finally, make sure that you belong to the group "disk". Use YaST or
YaST2 user administration for this purpose.
Keywords: KDE20, KSCD, CDPLAYER
Categories:
K Desktop Environment
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