playing cds

[briantee]

hie
i got a problem, and the problem is that i can't play me cds on my linux. When ever i insert the disk in the CDROM the cd Player automatically props up but gives me an error i.e it prints out the error as DRIVE ERROR.
After that it prompts me to set the device, to the appropriate one. On doing so i set my device to /dev/hdb which i believe is the correct path to my device, but on trying to play the CD again i get an error saying that I DON"T HAVE PERMISSIOM TO ACCESS /dev/hdb. So that's where i'm stuck at. If there is anyone out there who can help me pliz do so.
chao

[briantee]

By the way i use fedora core 3.

[Monkeh]

Include your user in the correct group.. Should be something like disk, or drives.

[dylunio]

you might allso want to add the user to the audio groupe.

[briantee]

i was wondering if u can give me so detailed procedures on how to do that, because i only started using linux recently.
chao

[dylunio]

Ususaly you can add users to a group by editing the /etc/group (as root) and adding your user name to the groups you want to be in.

dylunio

[briantee]

cool, i did that and now i can access my cdrom, however no sound is output when i try playing my audio cds. I tried ripping the cds and playing the .ogg files amd they do produce sound meaning that my problem has to be based on setting the output of sound from the audio cd.

[Monkeh]

Hmm.. For starters make sure you're included in the audio group. Also check your CD drive is connected to the sound card? (you can play audio CDs without that on windows, but I dunno about linux).

[jaboua]

Hmm.. For starters make sure you're included in the audio group. Also check your CD drive is connected to the sound card? (you can play audio CDs without that on windows, but I dunno about linux).

I have two cd-roms, one connected to the sound-card (embedded in the motherboard) and one not. It seems like linux can play CDs from the connected one and not the not-connected with the basic CD-players which come with gnome and KDE, but if you try xine or a xine frontend it should work anyway.