[Nottingham] SUSE11.1 help needed

[alistairlane at talktalk.net]

 Jim, thanks for the help but it's still not playing so I think I'll just junk SuSE and try something else. 
Originally I tried to install Mepis 7 (64 bit) but it would not recognise my RAID setup and tried to install on one disk or the other.
Anyone got any suggestions as to which distro will do what I want i.e.rip/play/store music files, play the odd DVD, view/store photo files, run OO.o3 and Firefox, preferably with KDE front end, which can be installed on an AMD x2 machine with RAID.
Alistair


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:16
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] SUSE11.1 help needed










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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