2.6.8 kernel and CD-RW

[Randy Kelsoe]

Mark Haney wrote:

>What's the story with the latest stock kernel (.521) and CD burners? 
>The .494 kernel works just fine with my Samsung CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive but
>the newest one only sees it as a standard CD-ROM drive.  I tried
>bugzilla, but didn't get anything (or I'm a lousy writer of queries for
>it).  
>
>Any news on this?
>
There were several threads on this last week. Did you look in the 
archives? The short answer is that it will work if you burn as root and 
not an unprivileged user.