Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:40, Fred Miller wrote:
> On Tuesday October 19 2004 11:38 am, C Hamel wrote:
> > On 10:07 Tue 19 Oct     , Fred Miller wrote:
> > > > ...And I think I might just try 9.1, now that the dust has settled. <G>
> > >
> > > Better off ordering 9.2, as it's the MOST heavily "hammered" release yet,
> > > but a LOT more hardware support. I'd get the Pro. Upgrade release.
> > >
> > > Fred
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being
> > > able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."
> >
> > That's what someone said about 9.1 ...and I had to revert to 9, ultimately,
> > for most things to work.  Weird.  ...And not everything is a hardware
> > problem, but rather unsupported hardware, possibly,  which boils down to
> > software.
> 
> 'Sure does, and I hope that these issues are FINALLY taken care of in 9.2. 
> I've a client with a NEW HP box that I CAN'T get XCDRoast to bun a CD as a 
> user....ONLY as Root. It simply DOES "take an act of Congress" way too often 
> to get CD burners to work properly for users FROM THE GET GO, that is in 
> install "out of the box."

  I've had that problem in the past as well Fred.  I read a few threads
on the list here, and one of them mentioned that you need to fire up
xcdroast as root and configure both the device, and user access.  It's
worked for me as a normal user after having done that.

  Mike