On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:35:10AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 031128 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > a couple of days ago, i got CD-writing working satisfactorily, > > having emerged xcdroast-0.98_alpha13 , stable for X86 . > > today, having done nothing special meanwhile except get sensors working, > > Xcdroast is very slow to start -- 1 m 30 s -- both as user & as root; > > it's a real puzzle, as there's no CPU activity showing & this box is fast. > > i had this problem on an earlier machine (Mandrake 9.0) > > & have forgotten the explanation & whether/how far it got fixed. > > generally, Xcdroast is a good enough front-end to Cdrecord etc > > & before i try eg K3b as an alternative, can anyone suggest a solution ? > > sorry to reply to myself, but a medium-length visit to Forum gave an answer. > the problem seems to be that if there's no CD in the drive, > a probe is done to determine whether the drive is indeed RW, > which takes a very long time. w a CD in the drive, Xcdroast starts at once.
Sounds like a pretty silly issue, maybe throw a bug to the author? From what I've seen using windows burning software it does a quick check to see if there is nothing in the drive and puts in reasonable defaults for size and CDR speed, then resets them when it detects a CD in the drive. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
