I can't burn CDs anymore (was Re: how to download kde....).

[John Summerfield]

On Friday 26 November 2004 07:38, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 26.11.2004 schrieb Erik Kjær Pedersen um 0:19:
> > kde-redhat's version of kde is far superior to the kde delivered by
> > fedora, so that is not a bad idea. I had a similar problem I could not
> > use k3b to burn cd's with kernel 2.6.8 it even says so on www.k3b.org. I
> > do not know whether that problem has been solved in 2.6.9 I am running
> > kernel 2.6.7 in order to have k3b work
> >
> > Erik
>
> Sorry, the burning problem has nothing to do with KDE but the kernel.
> Please see the list archive for that. There was a change with kernel
> 2.6.8 which made it impossible to burn as non-root user.

I recall from another list there's  conflict between cdrecord (and its author) 
and the kernel.

For dvd try growisofs.

I could well misremember, but my burners are on Debian boxes and I may well 
have been running a 2.4 kernel anyway (2.6.8 is installed tho).



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Cheers
John