From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 26 19: 9:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205AF37B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from anand.org (ip503c1252.speed.planet.nl [80.60.18.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188FD43E4A for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:09:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arb@anand.org) Received: from arb by mobile.anand.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18czeX-0007Uw-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:09:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:09:41 +0100 From: Anand Buddhdev To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: playing CDs as non-root user Message-ID: <20030127030941.GU9710@anand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got my FreeBSD system setup with KDE and sound. I have 2 questions: 1. I got sound to work simply by doing "kldload snd" but then I did kldstat and saw that all available sound modules had been loaded. I thought that was unnecessary - is there any way (besides inserting each module one at a time) that I can determine which exact module is providing the driver for my sound card? 2. I can play a music CD just fine as root, using cdcontrol, as described in the handbook. But under KDE, running as a non-root user, I cannot play music CDs. I looked at the permissions on /dev/acd0c, and they are 0640, root.operator, so an ordinary user cannot read the CD. I changed the permissions to 0644, and I could play the CD. However, there must be a good reason for the permisisons to be 0640, and I don't want to mess up the permissions just to get the CD player to work. What is the "official" way to get this to work? The handbook didn't mention it. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message