On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 15:17 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I see several other app's that look as though they should work but > don't, e.g. grip, sound-juicer, asunder. They seem to have trouble > finding the cdrom drive and I'm not sure they are any faster to > use > than K3B. But it seems they ought to work. > > [bobg@box9 ~]$ asunder > Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom > Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom > Error: Couldn't open /dev/cdrom > > Grip produces an error message: /dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic link to the real device, e.g. on my system: $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 Apr 27 12:21 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 That's what you need to check first. Since the automount thing is working, see what physical drive is mounted on /media/<whatever>. Note that you my need to unmount it (but not eject it) for the ripping apps to be able to access it directly. Alternatively, start the app before inserting the disc. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines