On 8/30/06, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I checked that. There IS some hald processes running.... but what exactly does this mean? $ ps ax | grep hald 2870 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald 2871 ? S 0:00 hald-runner 2877 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-acpi 2886 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard 2894 ? S 0:02 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage
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.
It IS a newer kernel. 2.6.16.14. I compiled it about 6 months ago and it worked just fine from that time vis. CD/DVD tasks. 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.
Already tried that. Tried growisofs as root from the command line. Said there was no media present (there was). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]