On Sunday January 28 2007 20:13, Stevens wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:53, steve reilly wrote: > > > > Yast knows > > > > when the distro DVD is loaded, but that's it. I have fought with > > > > this problem since I installed 10.2 on 7Jan07 and it is to the point > > > > that if I cannot resolve the issue, I am kissing Suse goodbye, as > > > > the system is almost worthless to me if I cannot use the cd/dvd > > > > drive. > > > > who owns the drive? > > Are you speaking of /dev/hdc (my dvd player)? If so, the same user that > owns all /dev : root, of course > > > who are you signed in as when trying to access the drive? > > It doesn't matter. It doesn't work in root or any user. > > > at some point drive permissions must have been changed, maybe have > > been changed to root only read? the default is set to let everyone > > read and see the drive. > > > > this would explain why only yast sees it, you have to sign in as root to > > use yast. > > The problem is bigger than that. > > > why dont you change the drive back to let everyone read it? > > > > sign in as root, open konqueror, find the drive, right click, choose > > properties, its obvious how to change from there. good luck. > > > > only idea I have. > > I think it has to do with ivman but I can't find much info on it. Mine is still working OK. I just checked permissions on /dev/dvdrecorder and dvd, they are lrwxrwxrwx and /media/dvdrecorder drwxr-xr-x.
Hope this may help you. -- Russ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
