I just installed openSUSE10.1a3 and it looks really sharp. I had never used any linux distro until about a month ago when my Win2k machine crashed and I just rebooted and installed Ubuntu. I didn't like that so I tried Mandriva. I had some issues there, so I've tried opensuse and it looks great so far.

I am entirely new to Linux, though, so I am having a few problems. What I would like to be able to do is play an audio cd. I stick the cd in, but receive the following message: "Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/hdc" I read around in the man pages and tried to chmod o+x, but that didn't appear to do anything. I know this is silly, but how can I set the permissions so that I can load a cd and just play it?

Thanks.

You may want to drop back to the current stable release, which I believe is 10.0. I tried running one of the alpha releases and they tend to be (unsurprisingly) a little buugy for those of us still learning.

What are you using to play CD's? I use Kaffeine mostly, after a few false starts due to hardware problems. I don't really use the CD player at all...

With Kaffeine, I noticed in my early days using Suse that when I tried to play a DVD it would say "Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/hdc", but what it actually meant was "Please make sure you have libdvdcss installed". So another possibility is that you may be missing some multi-media codec?

That is the extent of my Suse multimedia expertise. Perhaps someone else can pick this up?

I am using Kaffeine. I'll install 10.0 and see if I run into the same problems. Thanks for the help!