Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:53:49 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Joseph S. Atkinson" <jsa@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CD Access in 9.x and -CURRENT Message-ID: <20111230095349.347989ed@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFCF66A.1020308@FreeBSD.org> References: <4EFC0127.6030301@FreeBSD.org> <4EFCF66A.1020308@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:23:22 -0800 Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Just to clarify some things that I passed on to Joseph in haste ... > > On 12/28/2011 21:56, Joseph S. Atkinson wrote: > > Doug Barton reports that cdcontrol(1) doesn't work for him, > > Some of the functions work, but I can't play audio CDs with it, even as > root. > > > and mplayer > > and audactiy also display issues running as non-root. > > These 2 will play audio CDs when run as root due to a labyrinth of > permissions issues in /dev, in spite of my having my unprivileged user > in the 'operator' group. vlc doesn't work at all, even as root. > > I'm happy to provide more details, testing, etc. > I'm running 10.0-CURRENT r228926 and have no problem watching DVDs with vlc and mplayer as an unpriviledged user in the operator group. I can even rip movies using dvdrip. I have this in /etc/devfs.conf perm cd0 0660 perm xpt0 0660 perm pass0 0660 perm pass1 0660 perm pass2 0660 perm pass3 0660 Haven't tried listening to audio CDs, but I can rip them with no problem. -- Gary Jennejohn
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