[ILUG] Grip

[Ronny B]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:29:50PM +0000, Mark Page wrote:
> Running Debian Woody for the last four weeks which has included a number of 
> problems. Four re-installs at least.
Yikes!

> Quite proud that I have not had to resort to the list once and now have most 
> things working, such as combo DVD/CD/CDRW, sound card, Video Card (almost - I 
> still am afraid of installing the NVidia 3d patches!). 
I'm using a GeForce2 MX, and the latest drivers. No problems so far -
glHack, Uplink, Q3A and UT all work. If you have any sudden freeze
problems, disable any APIC settings in the kernel.

> However, one problem that has me stumped that I would have thought would be 
> simple. Grip will work for me as root but steadfastly refuses to work as 
> user. It will load the CDRom, read it etc. but as soon as I try to rip and
/me pulls out a Hawkwind CD and runs Grip..

/me fixes his similar problem..

OK, here's what I've got:
/dev/cdrom (which cdparanoia defaults to) is a link to the real SCSI
generic device. In my case, it's /dev/sg1 - owned by root, group cdrom.
Permissions r/w for group. I've also got the internal zip drive
registered as a SCSI generic device, and that seems to move the /dev/sg*
thingies a bit.

Try ln -s /dev/sg[num] /dev/cdrom, and execute 'cdparanoia -v 1 1.wav'
on a commandline. It should tell you if the device is wrong, or start
ripping track one if it's OK.
 
> permissions to cdparanoia, grip. bladeenc et al to no avail. (BTW XCDRoast 
> will rip to .wav as user)
XCDRoast runs suid root, but is otherwise a good program. I wouldn't
consider any other frontend ;)

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O- Nny