Comment 2 for bug 510505

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david38840 (dridleypto) wrote : Re: [Bug 510505] Re: cdrecord has no permission to open the device

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately I am a newbie and don't really
understand the solution.
I have downloaded cdrtools, but its a beta.tar.gz file and I dont know
the command line instructions to install it.
Can I actually solution the problems with cdrtools? You mention I cannot.
its incorrect interfacing to hald in the fork? What does this mean and
how do you think I can solution.
Many thanks for your help and assistance.

Schily wrote:
> This bug report is not against cdrecord but against a broken fork.
>
> The specific problem mentioned in the bug report has never been
> in cdrtools (the original software). The problem mentioned in the
> bug report results from incorrectly interfacing to hald in the fork.
>
> I recommend you to install recent original software to fix the problem:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/
>
> Make sure to install cdrecord/cdda2wav/readcd suid root, as features
> from Linux that could help to avoid the need for suid root binraies
> have been disabled in Ubuntu.
>
>