On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:18 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On my FC5 machine audio disks when inserted in the drive appear on > > desktop. As an ordinary user they are played by the appropriate > > application. As root, however, even thought the icon appears on the > > desktop neither totem not gnome-CD can find the CD. > > Why are you trying to play audio CDs as root, for goodness sake? I have no actual passion to play CD-s as root, but it has always worked before. /dev/hdc which is attached to the cdrom has permissions: brw-rw---- root disk So if anything it should only be accessible as root. So what sense does that make? > > > Since these CD-s no longer are mounted in the usual way I don't know > > where to look for the problem. Does someone have nay ideas? > > Sounds like a feature, not a bug to me... > > But what are the permissions on the appropriate devices in /dev? > > James. > -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>