[Nottingham] SUSE11.1 help needed

[Jim Moore]

alistairlane at talktalk.net wrote:
> Hi Jim
> I've tried all sorts of music CDs (bought and copied) but the system 
> just doesn't see them, nothing appears in the device notifier and 
> neither amrok or Kaffein is launched.
> Alistair
>
<snips>

There is a known bug in OpenSuSE 11.1 (which I haven't come across 
myself, surprisingly enough), which the team are working on. It's down 
to permissions for CD/DVD drives, and here's /a/ workaround if it is that*:

YAST >> Security and Users >> User Management >> "select your user" >> 
Edit >> Details >> Groups >> check "cdrom" and "disk" and then click on 
"ACCEPT".

There are several more (temporary) fixes, but I won't give you the 
50,000-odd Google hits in one big email... this one would seem to 
suffice until Novell or the community find a way to patch this rather 
embarrassing cockup.

*If you can access the drive with a data DVD or CD then it most likely 
is this.

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