CD Writing Hostile-Takeover

[Guy Fraser]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:28, Adam Voigt wrote:

>>I finally got my FireWire CD-RW working (thanks to those who helped),
>>but now for some reason XCD-Roast won't burn CD's. I triple checked all
>>the settings, and they are right, and it gets up to the status screen
>>where it does the "Writing CD" with progress dialog, etc. However,
>>nothing actually happens. Manually running "cdrecord" from the command
>>line with all the appropriate options, does nothing as well (it says
>>it's starting the actual burn, but just sits there).
>>
>>However, if using Nautilus, I right click on an "iso" image and go to
>>burn, it works fine, but this only allows me to burn pre-prepared iso
>>images, not CD to CD, etc.
>>
>>My hypothesis is that because Nautilus pops up the "burn:///" dialog,
>>when I insert a blank CD, that it must be commandeering the CD-RW drive,
>>preventing any other programs from writing to it.
>>
>>Does this sound like whats happening? If yes, how can I stop it? If no,
>>got any ideas?
>>    
>>
Are you leaving the nautilus window open?

I always close the nautilus window, before attempting to write to the 
blank CD
and have not had any problems.