K3B not recognizing burners capabilities

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:45, Brian Mury wrote:
> K3B recently stopped recognizing my burner's capabilities properly. It
> thinks it can't burn CDs or DVD+R(W)s.
> 
> It works properly if I run it as root, but not if I run it as any other
> user.
> 

read the archives.  Kernel 2.6.8 requires root to burn CDs.

> Here's a couple screenshots - pay attention to the "Writes CDs", "Writes
> DVD+R(W)s", and "Write modes" lines.
> 
> not root (broken): http://members.shaw.ca/brianmury/k3b.png
> root (working):    http://members.shaw.ca/brianmury/k3b_root.png
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>