Permissios in /dev caused failure to play video dvd

[oldcpu]

This is a bug in openSUES-11.1. I hope it will be fixed in the next couple of months. There is a blog here giving work around suggestions (most of which are not typically needed). Solved : K3b Problem with Normal User on openSUSE 11.1 | Spirit of Change

[Easgs]

Which one of those solutions is the most recommended?

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Easgs

Which one of those solutions is the most recommended?

Most recommended? I don't know.

On two of my openSUSE-11.1 PCs I added users to the group "disk" and the group "cdrom" and that worked for me. It may not work for everyone.

[Easgs]

https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachme...licy.orig_sec1

How do I use that patch?

[Easgs]

In my case, I do chmod 666 /dev/sr0. It solved my current problem

Try to add your user id to disk and cdrom group by using YAST | Security & Users| User & Group Management. Choose your id and then Edit |Detail

Used acl to give proper access control setting view plaincopy to clipboardprint?
setfacl -m your-user-gid:rw /dev/sr0

setfacl -m your-user-gid:rw /dev/sr0
to /etc/init.d/boot.local

Check status of /dev/sr0 with ls -l /dev/sr0 and checked if it has ‘+’ sign. Please refer to this for assistance

Make your user a member of “cdrom� group by following step 2 and then create /etc/udev/rules.d/99-my.rules file with the following entry : KERNEL==�sr*[0-9]“, GROUP=�cdrom�, MODE=�0660″ and then reboot

Patch /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.policy. Refer to this patch for assistance.

ok I tested all that, It solved the problem with K3b but I still can`t play any DVD movies, it display the "dvdread could not open the disk /dev/sr0" error even as root, I tested with VLC, mplayer Smplayer and xine.

[Easgs]

Ok it only happens when I open mycomputer right click with the mouse and hit play with vlc, if I open Vlc and select open disk no menus I plays fine.

[robertsmits]

I have the problem with 11.0 / KDE3.5 that Kaffeine can't play the DVDs either. It was also evident in 11.1 / KDE4, 11.1 with KDE3.

Bob