I'm getting very close - sounds now work thanks to the tips below. I still can't get music CDs to work. They will work when I log into X as root... but that's not good.
When I start the CD player, it says: Error accessing cdrom device. Please check to make sure cdrom drive support is compiled into the kernel, and that you have permission to access the device. Reason: Permission denied Like I said before, it will play CDs when I log into X as root. I tried changing the group of the CD program (gtcd) to audio, since my username is now a member of the audio group, but it still gave the same error. Any suggestions are certainly welcome, John Eric G. Miller wrote: >On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:20:39PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: >> I've been setting up my sound, and I still don't have everything up and >> running yet. I've noticed that the sound effects for Enlightenment won't >> start until esd (Enlightenment sound daemon) is running, and I can only >> start that as root. Is this because /dev/audio (and therefore esd) is only >> accessible by root? > >As root: >$ adduser <username> audio > >> I've had a suggestion to use groups to provide access to devices. Is this >> the standard (and "safe") way to handle using sound for mutiple users while >> using X? It doesn't seem that this is a common problem, so I feel I'm >> missing something. >> >> Also, I wanted to test listening to a CD, but somehow I can no longer >> access CDs. The Debian install created /cdrom (I assume this is instead of >> /mnt/cdrom) and there is no /dev/cdrom to mount in the first place. It says: >> >> mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist > >/dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to the real device. Just create it like: >$ ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom > >You'll need to figure out which device is really your cdrom. But there >aren't too many if it's IDE (/dev/hd[a-d] usually). > >And, yes, Debian uses /cdrom and /floppy instead of /mnt/cdrom and >/mnt/floppy. You can change that if you like by creating two >directories under /mnt and then updating /etc/fstab accordingly. Some >Debian packages may expect the default, but I can't think of any... > >> My CD worked perfectly in a previous installation. I now am using a >> week-old net-install of potato. >-- >SIGUSR1 > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null