Re: [Freevo-users] Problem getting freevo to recognize that a CD-ROM has been inserted - solved!

[James Simmons]

Last night I figured out what was wrong by studying the source code.  I 
don't know Python, but the code was easy enough to follow.  My problem 
was this: there is a thread that reads the device file (/dev/hdb) to 
determine if a CD has been inserted into the drive.  On my Mandrake box 
anyone can do this, but on the SuSE box you need to be root.  I guess 
few people have had this problem because they implemented the TV 
watching module, which requires freevo to be run via sudo to access the 
TV card.  Since I removed that module (I just want to watch my DivX and 
VCD collection on TV) I didn't need to run freevo as anything more than 
an ordinary user.

I logged in as root and changed /dev/hdb to allow all users to read from 
it and that did the trick.

Another good thing I discovered by browsing the source is that you can 
define DEBUG=2 in your local_conf.py and get lots of helpful messages 
sent to the system console.  That helped me figure out that freevo 
wasn't even trying to mount my CD.

Everything works great now.  Freevo is exactly what I needed!  Thanks to 
the authors and to everyone who helped.

James Simmons

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:

  Next relase should deal ok with supermount devices, because now it
try to recognize drives based on mount points too (/mnt/cdrom[0-9]*)
  Also, freevo mount/unmount devices itself. So you need that the user
freevo is running as is able to mount/umount devices.
  For instance, my fstab:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom     auto    ro,noauto,user,exec     0 0
..........................................^^^^
  Be sure "user" is there!

Gustavo
  

 





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