Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> Hi, Gentoo. > > I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the > cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group > membership, could be switched off. > > Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical > button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is > clearly suboptimal. > > However, if I start Gnome as root, I can eject a CD trouble freely. > But running as root is also suboptimal. > > So, I thought, maybe this "feature" is another pesky group restriction. > So I tried adding myself to group "disk", then to group "cdrw", all to > no avail. I still couldn't eject the disk. With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of mount cat /etc/mtab -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
