An article about using a DVD writer has appeared in a magazine which I buy. The article suggests that before using a DVD writer one has to do a couple of things one of which is to place in Grub's (if using Grub) menu.lst, in the line headed "kernel", the entry " hdx=ide-scsi", where x = the DVD's device number. I know that Suse has already done this for me when I installed the DVD writer but when I looked in menu.lst I found that the entry "hdd=ide-scsi hddlun-0" appears 4 times in consecutive order. My question is: wouldn't just the one entry be sufficient and the other 3 can be deleted? (And why did the 4 identical entries get created?) The other suggetsion made in the article is that one ought to go and download the program called ProDVD (plus cdrecord-wrapper.sh and readcd) from ftp.berlios.de and install this application. But Suse (v9) has k3b which is supposed to be the all-singing, all-dancing DVD applic. Question: do I need ProDVD or do I just go with k3b? (I haven't used the DVD burner yet on Suse hence my question(s).) Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
An article about using a DVD writer has appeared in a magazine which I buy. The article suggests that before using a DVD writer one has to do a couple of things one of which is to place in Grub's (if using Grub) menu.lst, in the line headed "kernel", the entry " hdx=ide-scsi", where x = the DVD's device number.
I know that Suse has already done this for me when I installed the DVD writer but when I looked in menu.lst I found that the entry "hdd=ide-scsi hddlun-0" appears 4 times in consecutive order.
Once should be enough.
My question is: wouldn't just the one entry be sufficient and the other 3 can be deleted? (And why did the 4 identical entries get created?)
The other suggetsion made in the article is that one ought to go and download the program called ProDVD (plus cdrecord-wrapper.sh and readcd) from ftp.berlios.de and install this application. But Suse (v9) has k3b which is supposed to be the all-singing, all-dancing DVD applic.
Question: do I need ProDVD or do I just go with k3b? (I haven't used the DVD burner yet on Suse hence my question(s).)
I have been using k3b without problems (SuSE 9.0 pro version) to burn both DVD's and CD's. You don't specify which ver. you are using. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
An article about using a DVD writer has appeared in a magazine which I buy. The article suggests that before using a DVD writer one has to do a couple of things one of which is to place in Grub's (if using Grub) menu.lst, in the line headed "kernel", the entry " hdx=ide-scsi", where x = the DVD's device number.
I know that Suse has already done this for me when I installed the DVD writer but when I looked in menu.lst I found that the entry "hdd=ide-scsi hddlun-0" appears 4 times in consecutive order.
Once should be enough.
My question is: wouldn't just the one entry be sufficient and the other 3 can be deleted? (And why did the 4 identical entries get created?)
The other suggetsion made in the article is that one ought to go and download the program called ProDVD (plus cdrecord-wrapper.sh and readcd) from ftp.berlios.de and install this application. But Suse (v9) has k3b which is supposed to be the all-singing, all-dancing DVD applic.
Question: do I need ProDVD or do I just go with k3b? (I haven't used the DVD burner yet on Suse hence my question(s).)
I have been using k3b without problems (SuSE 9.0 pro version) to burn both DVD's and CD's. You don't specify which ver. you are using.
Thanks for the answers. I'll now delete the other 3 copies of the entry. I indicate above that I am using v9, but unfortunately did not say whether it was the Pro or Home version. I am using v9 Pro, same as you. So, I'll stick with k3b :-) . Thanks. Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.
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