On 06/29/2008 04:57 AM, Clayton wrote:
I posted earlier about problems burning DVDs and the problem is still there. This has been an issue in openSUSE 11.0 and in Kubuntu 8.04 as well... so I don't think that it is an OS specific problem... but whatever it is, I haven't yet resolved it and I could use a little nudge in the right direction.
Try checking memory. I realize it is a long shot, but my daughter could not burn a DVD on her laptop (I was troubleshooting from 13 timezones away), and it became clear she had a stick of bad memory. Testing for a while with memtest revealed the errors, and when she removed the bad stick, she was able to burn the DVD. Evidently, burning the DVD used more memory than she normally used (though her laptop had many other varied symptoms of problems). Just an idea. She could even burn a CDR (I would guess because of less memory needed. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org