Adding my CDRW device to k3b

Justin R. Pessa jstn at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Apr 14 16:14:37 PDT 2005


On Apr 15 12:06AM, nbco wrote:
> On Friday 15 April 2005 00:00, Justin R. Pessa wrote:
> > Allo!
> >
> > I'm having problems trying to get k3b to recognize my CDRW drive. I
> > went to "Settings" > "COnfigure k3b" > "Devices". When I add
> > /dev/acd0 it says "Could not find an additional device at /dev/acd0".
> 
> <snip>
> >
> > I realize this is probably more a k3b problem than a FreeBSD problem,
> > but I feel as though there is something specific to FreeBSD I have
> > either missed or am over looking.
> 
> Have you tried running k3b as root, if it sees your device as root.  

When I run an X app as root I get: 

Password:
[root at twinturbo] /home/jstn $ k3b
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

k3b: cannot connect to X server :0.0

I'm not sure how to give root permission to the X session on this
display. Any thoughts here?

> Then you can change the permissions for the devices or just run it as 
> root
> hope this helps
> .nbco

Thanks!

- j

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