Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:33:43 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to access CDROM device to play music Message-ID: <20101130133343.4f9502f9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4CF4DEF4.6080905@bah.homeip.net> References: <4CF44CCE.8030005@embarqmail.com> <BLU0-SMTP810113DCD8D4D5FB14250B93250@phx.gbl> <4CF4DEF4.6080905@bah.homeip.net>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:24:36 +0100, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> wrote: > One can not play audio-cd on freebsd without root access. > No matter what you put in devfs* Tried it since freebsd4* Not fully true. Maybe the statement ist right along with the mentioning of "on modern systems" - where "modern" deserves an additional set of quotes. :-) I've been playing audio CDs regularly on FreeBSD 4 and 5, but I was lucky to have a sound card and a wired internal audio connector for my drive(s). The command % cdcontrol play 1 for example sets the CD drive to "play" state, and the audio signal was available at the front connector (often not present anymore on today's drives), as well as on the rear connector connected to the foot bone, the foot bone connected to the sound card, and the sound card connected to the amp system. :-) I'm sad, REALLY sad to see more and more simple things stopping working... Giving *others* write access (o+w) to sensitive system devices may not be a good idea in every setting. For the "old fashioned" solution, this was not needed: The user went to the operator ground, and g+w. Done. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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