FX - I read your message with interest. I've now installed the latest version of k3b. (10.2cvs) I run it and it gives me the following errors cdrdao does not run with root privileges readcd does not run with root privileges no support for ATAPI with cdrdao and tells me I should use k3bsetup to sort it out. Hurrah, I now find I have a k3bsetup in the KDE control centre. I go into administrator mode. The k3bsetup module is anything but intuitive, but I click on the "defaults" button and click "apply". K3bsetup tells me permissions have successfully been set. I relaunch k3b. Only the message about ATAPI is still present. So I assume that this refers either to my DVD drive or to my Seagate tape drive and will not be a problem. I try burning a CD and *still* I get the error. Once again the message seems to say I have no permissions for /dev/pg1. You've used k3bsetup successfully. What did you do? I notice that on the CD-RW drive the permissions are given as 666 root.disk whereas on my dvd drive they are given as 666 kmp.disk. Is this right? I can't see how you change them in k3bsetup. I thought then that perhaps kmp needed to be in group disk. I added disk to my groups using YAST but it made no difference to k3b. I must say that when I first posted my problem on this list I thought I'd get a reply which simply said - "chmod a+w /dev/???????? and that will fix it." I can't believe I'm still struggling with this despite the best endeavours of all the kind and helpful people on this list. Best wishes - Ken On Friday 21 November 2003 8:32 am, FX Fraipont wrote:
I have been following your discussion with interest, having recently moved from 8.2 to 9, and from a perfectly functioning K3b setup to what 9 proposes, and was nor very functional for me. Namely, CDrecorder as /dev/sr0 (scsi emulation) and my dvd reader as /dev/hdd.