On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:09:05AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: > I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary > modules built at that time and DVDs / CDs mounted or were burnt > without any problems. I haven't installed a new kernel since then. > > I doubt the drive is toast. It is only a year old and (as mentioned) > works perfectly well for mounting CDs, burning CDs or mounting a > burnt DVD. In my experience if an optical drive goes the whole thing > stops working. > > I will restart from another partition (Ubuntu) just to make sure .... > get back to you about that soon.
Actually the HAL used by gnome/kde on newer systems causes serious problems for writing DVD/CD on a lot of systems because it keeps polling the drive to check if there is a disk in there yet. Any chance that is screwing it up? Look for something named vold or hald or something similar. Oh and you might have to be root to write with newer kernels, since they filter low level commands to the drive, and maybe aren't letting through some that are required. A good test is to burn from the command line as root just to make sure. If that works you can go on to work out what is blocking it. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]