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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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:

  1. Login as root in the command line by entering the command su and then answering the password request.
  2. Now enter chmod 640 /dev/hdb to assign access rights for your CD-ROM drive to the group.
  3. Then assign your CD-ROM drive to the group "disk" by executing the command chgrp disk /dev/hdb.
  4. 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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