Quote Originally Posted by Stephen
In a console window as root adduser steve video to add yourself to obvisously the video group. Some other groups you may want to belong to: floppy, cdrom, audio and src. To check which groups you belong too in a console groups or id.

note: You have to log out then back in for the changes to take effect.
I did all of those, plus knoppix. I ran groups to confirm I was in all of those groups. I rebooted my entire machine.

I chmoded (as root) /cdrom, /dev/hdc, and /dev/dvd.

I am still getting "can't find mrl" messages from xine if I am not logged in as root or knoppix

Steve