Did you log out and then log back in after changing the /etc/group file? Tom On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:07:56AM -0500, Scott Howell wrote: > Thanks, I tried adding myself to the cdrom and disk group with no luck. > The difference between being root and myself as a user I get the > following error as just a user. > > Playing DVD title 1 > libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. > libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading > Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd > > Now my drive is /dev/hdc which is part of the disk group and I created a > symlink to this device as cdrom and dvd. I still get the above error > despite the fact I've added myself to both groups and I did logout of > the current console and log back in. > I'm not sure whatelse to do here. I can mount discs on this device so > its apparently functioning just fine. > Any other thoughts appreciated. Oh another thing, I tried specifying > -dvd-device as /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd with the same above > error message accept the only difference is that the device name it > couldn't open would match what I put on the command line. > > tia > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup