On Wednesday 09 Feb 2005 7:21 pm, Pankaj Dekate wrote:
If it's a kernel problem then other burning software also shud not be able to detect writers.
Not true In fact my writer (acer) .. (though the issue shows up on a sony, lite-on as well. in fact it will show up with _all_ standard writers) shows up and works well on the command line and every other software ( ncuses based, gtoaster, even the kde "arson".
the way k3b detects cd writers is different from any other software (as far as the common ones go)
snippet from: http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/news2
"A patch that was introduced into the kernel shortly before the 2.6.8 release makes K3b and also the dvd+rw-tools unusable on Linux (unless run as root but that is not recommended). The very important GET CONFIGURATION MMC command is rejected by the kernel for reasons I cannot see and writing commands like MODE SELECT also fail (K3b cannot detect CD writers without it) even when the device is opened O_RDWR. Until this issue has been solved I strongly recommend to stick to kernel version 2.6.7."
If you are indeed able to get k3b to detect your cd writer (and are using 2.6.8+) , perhaps you could consider writing in to the k3b team because they (and others) are all struggling to work around the issue, maybe the Lg is showing different some how... but it doesnt make sense as to why it should. maybe you are one of the lucky ones :-)
though.... I think your issue is related to the patched cdrecord version released with FC3, for which a fix is now available and not directly related to the problem stated above
rgds Erle