I have a compaq r3240us which has a toshiba r6252 dvd drive. When I tried writing to dvd+r media with k3b I get a message that I need to use a dvd+- double layer dvd. An HP web page lists the drive as 8x but other web pages claim it is 2.x . I also tried running vmware and windows but the vmware setup for the 2.6.8-24.18 kernel fails with : Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel: insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config20/vmmon.o': -1 Invalid parameters There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel I know this is two problems but got to the second by trying to find a workaround for writing a dvd. Any suggestions. Don Leslie