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Date:      	Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:34:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Daniel T. Chen" <crimsun@email.unc.edu>
To:        Luis Rios <lrios@NetCentric.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: KSCD...
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.3.95L.990921162939.126206B-100000@login5.isis.unc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1011600ACA84D21191F300805FFE895E8DBA4E@exchange.server.net>

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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Luis Rios wrote:

> I've just recently installed FreeBSD3.2 on a pentium 166 with 64M of ram
> along with KDE. The problem lies when I try to access the CD players app
> (KSCD) . Everytime I try to run it starts, stops, and then dumps core.. The
> only thing that I can think of is the device for the CD-ROM is incorrect or
> PNP is not enabled (I removed it from the kernel). Has anyone had this
> problem or are things just not configured correctly?? Any advice or hints
> would be greatly appreciated....
> I installed KDE via pkg_add...

Luis, pkg_add does not change the actual access permissions for the device
you're using as CD-ROM.  This may have security implications, but I simply
do a `chmod o+r <device>` on the CD-ROM device in /dev (in mine,
/dev/acd0c for an ATAPI CD-ROM).  Check with others to see if this is a
good idea.

-d

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Daniel T. Chen
daniel_chen@unc.edu




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