CD burner that Just Works

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:25:58 -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> And all this after running K3bsetup, of course.

You should not even be able to, since k3bsetup is NOT included
in Fedora Core 3. This sounds again as if you picked up a k3b
package somewhere else. I've seen a number of users have problems
with such packages, sometimes because patches were not included.
A downgrade to FC3 k3b and latest kernel fixed it for them.
 
> Right now the situation is as follows:
>   -- if run as a regular user, k3b sees my burner as a
>      regular CDROM, so it list it as a Reader. Obviously
>      I can't burn :) No amount of upgrading/updating/k3bsetup
>      fixed that problem.
>   -- if I run it as root, it sees the burner as a burner.
> 
> What gives? This is driving me *INSANE*. A similar story
> happend on another box of mine (this time with a
> HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B drive):
>   -- installed FC3test3, it worked
>   -- after a while it stopped seeing the burner
>   -- upgraded to FC3, updated, k3bsetup, now it sees it