I just installed xcdroast and it works fine so that shows the problem is with K3b. This would be fine for me if it wasn't for the fact that xcdroast does not burn image files. Hopefully this will be fixed. -Gregory Olds On Thursday 22 April 2004 02:25 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Gregory Oolds wrote:
Hello all. I keep getting and error from K3b that it CDrecord does not have permission to open up my cd recorder device. I have checked the permissions on the device file and I do have access under my user account. I know that when I complied 2.6.4 into my SuSE 9 distribution, I disabled scsi emulation. I was told that it was not needed to burn cd's anymore. I also think that I had burning working at one point without emulation enabled, but have since formatted my computer and don't remember for sure. Can someone tell me if this is possible and what do I have to do to get CD burning to work?
Thanks
-Gregory Olds
There was a spat on the kernel mailing list quite a while back over the dropping of ide_scsi support, Linus & co vs. Jorge Schilling & co, recent kernels (2.6.3 and up) appear to have a fix provided by Linus. I gather that k3b back then did not support ide-cd, but I don't know if that has been fixed in the latest kde. I had burn failing part way through k3b and ide-cd, so I abandoned using k3b and installed the latest version (0.98alpha15) of xcdroast which works fine on both laptop and tower. In /boot/grub/menu.lst, I changed hdb=ide-scsi to hdb=ide-cd and also upgraded cdrtools to the dvd aware versions, on my 64-bit laptop using SuSE 9.0 x86_64 it's 2.01a18-dvd and on the 32-bit box it's 2.01a27. Something to consider if the issue with k3b isn't resolved. Regards Sid.
-- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.