Quote Originally Posted by markleong
Kowood, try the following from console:-

ls -la /mnt/cdrom

Did you get a no such file or directory message? You should unless you have created a mount point in /mnt yourself.

Next do the following:-

ls -la /cdrom

You should see 2 lines, one ending with 1 dot and the other with 2 dots.

Log in as root and goto /dev.

Issue the following as root user:-

chmod 777 /dev/cdrom

Then type the following:-

ls -la /dev/cdrom

You will see that /dev/cdrom points to something else (eg. /dev/scd0).

Let me know what does it point to. Or you can enable everyone has read access to whatever /dev/cdrom is pointing to (eg. chmod a+r /dev/scd0).

After that try to play your movies or music cd. Try music cd first for simplicity. Again, there is no need to mount vcd, dvd or cds.

/mnt/hda1 should be your harddisk (not cdrom) and I don't think you should mount anything there yourself unless you know what you are doing.

The above are all done in a console
The first one gave me some readout, it wasn't no file or directory message. ls -la /cdrom showed me all the files on my hda1. chmod 777 /dev/cdrom gave a no file or directory for /dev/cdrom. I'll post the full output if I can get it to save. I have some troubles with that earlier.