has K3B been abandoned?

[Konrad Karl]

...sorry about the bad mail formatting, I do copy/paste
from the mail archive for the moment.

> how does one do that...command line
> bash>hal-disable-polling or
> bash>hal -disable-polling

man hal-disable-polling 

I did
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/dvdrw 
(writing from memory)

the symptoms were: PX716 hanging at the very beginning of the
track - I am using it over FireWire or USB, both interfaces
failed the same way.

Konrad