Thanks, but it didn't work. I uninstalled alpha13, eroaster, k3b and reinstalled xcdroast-alpha14. Same thing. Hard reboot when running first time as root. Since it never runs at root, I cannot set it to non-root mode and don't have the .xcdroast directory in home. A real puzzler.
Linus On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:28:30 -0300 Pilagá <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linus Drouhard escribió: > > >Yes, I uninstalled (several times) and reinstalled. I reformatted the / > > > and /usr partitions on my harddrive and reloading Mandrake and > > > reinstalled xcdroast. The only thing I didn't erase was my home > > > directory. I couldn't find anything in it that related to xcdroast. > > >Linus > > First: Try the last release (alpha14) www.xcdroast.org, and also: > > /26. Write performance is bad or my system freezes!/ > If your system is put into high stress while you write a CD you might > get buffer underruns or in the worst case the system locks up > completely. Almost always these problems hint towards an incorrectly > configured system. > First check the transferrate of your harddrive - on linux there is a > tool called hdparm which does a nice job here. > /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda > This will measure the raw read throughput of your drive - you should see > values like 20-30MB/s for modern drives. If you are way below that value > you cannot write CDs in high-speed. Check if DMA transfer is enabled for > that drive. (See "man hdparm" for details). > Next thing is to check if you have other programs which also access the > CD-ROM/CD-Writer. Desktop-Systems often have KDE or Gnome running which > try to automount each inserted CD. This often kills cdrecord. Turn off > all this automatic CD handling in the Setup of KDE/Gnome. There are also > CD-Player applets in KDE and Gnome which should be disabled. > Now we check the writer device itself. Use hdparm again to see if DMA is > enabled. For some systems DMA should be on, on others it should be > disabled. You have to try for yourself which configuration gives you the > best results. > /sbin/hdparm -d 0 -u 0 -k 1 /dev/hdc > This command disables DMA transfers /dev/hdc (possibly your CD-Writer). > Some reports told me that this often fixed problems. > If you still have problems you can try to set the "Set SCSI IMMED flag" > option within the X-CD-Roast write dialog. On systems where harddrive > and writer are on the same IDE bus this can improve the behaviour. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/FAQ > /usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98alpha14/Readme atapi > > Suerte > -- > Pilagá > GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.1 > Núcleo multimedia 2.4.21-0.16 > 09:18:19 up 28 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.03 > > >
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