You also need scsi generic support loaded, cdparanoia will send requests both to /dev/scd0 and /dev/sg0 so also make sure you do cd /dev ./MAKEDEV sg Regards, Kerry. On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:44:45AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hi Ann and all. > Speaking of abcde, I am having another problem there as explained in the note > below. I already sent this to debian but the only reply I got was somebody else > who is having the same problem both on debian and redhat. > Oh, also, when I try to use the -o switch with abcde (for mp3 output instead of > ogg) I get this message (both as a user and as root): > > abcde error: id3v2 is not in your path. > As you'll se below, I can run abcde (and cdparanoia where the actual problem > seems to show up) just fine as root as long as I settle for ogg output or > actually cdparanoia works fine and gives me a .wav output. > > Inserted message from email to other list: > > I now have both a cdrom and a cdrw on > my machine. They are both ide/atapi but i > am using scsi emulation; the cdrw is scd0 and the cdrom is scd1 (on hdc and hdd > respectively). I have no > problem accessing the cdrom or the cdrw as far as mounting or listening to audio > cds. However, when I try to run abcde and/or cdparanoia I get errors about > "unable to open cdrom". when I run cdparanoia with the -v option, the indication > is > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/scd1 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd1 > > Yet when I run abcde and/or cdparanoia as root, there is no problem. I assume > this is some kind of permissions problem, but I can't seem to find the source of > it. > /dev/cdrom is the symlink to /dev/scd1 and /dev/cdrecord is the symlink to > /dev/scd0. I am also a member of the cdrom group. I didn't have any trouble with > these programs before converting to scsi. > Can anybody see what I need to change here? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au