Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Bill Wisse <wiswp@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 07:29, Matt T. wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2004 22:36, C Hamel wrote:
> > On 20:26 Mon 18 Oct     , Don Parris wrote:
> > > C Hamel wrote:
> > > >...And I think I might just try 9.1, now that the dust has settled.
> > > > <G>
> > >
> > > I confess, it seems rather a short period of time since 9.1 arrived,
> > > and now here's 9.2.  Yet and still, I'd like to move up, and I'm not
> > > afraid of the cutting edge.  After all, if you've ever used Windows,
> > > you just get used to things not working right.  ;)  Hopefully, that's
> > > not the case with 9.2.  Even so, I found that setting up USB printers
> > > in SUSE was much, much easier than on my Win98 box.  In fact, the
> > > printer setup was one of the things that convinced me to put more
> > > effort into SUSE. Proprietary, time-bomb CD burner software was
> > > another.
> > >
> > > Don
> > >
> > > --
> > > DC Parris
> > > http://matheteuo.org/
> > > http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/
> > > "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone
> > > anytime anywhere."
> >
> > You make a good point.. and I'm not afraid of the bleeding edge, having
> > done beta testing for years.  I gave that up, though, finally.
> >
> > I just wish I *could* burn a CD w/o going back to XP.  K3b doesn't find
> > the burner ...nor does xcdroast.  Flawless burning from XP.  I have
> > learned the hard way to always keep a 'Doze box handy ...and it is
> > unfortunate that this seems to be necessary.
> >  --
>
> Check your setup. k3b works fine. xcdroast as well, with less comfort
> though.

Not on my system. 9.1 with the latest kernel updates. I cannot burn CD's!
Every burning program eats up all my memory (512) and the swap (1012).
The burning stops after 50% or 75%.
It used to work but after a kernel update ( months ago now) I faced this 
problem.
Hope that 9.2 will rectify this.

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