[newbie] DVD recorder compatibility
Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 19:14, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Works fine here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:32:59 +, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Works fine here. Thanks, Ian. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility
On Friday 11 March 2005 02:14 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Thanks in advance, Paul Paul, You can try looking in the hardware database http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3. Also you can look at the Twiki at ttp://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:34:09 -0500, Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? You can try looking in the hardware database http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3. Also you can look at the Twiki at ttp://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes. Thanks, Mike, but Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk is not mentioned in both sites. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
Hi everyone! I'm pondering spending money I technically should be saving (for a possible cross country move) on a DVD drive for my computer. Just a simple DVD reader, I don't need to burn DVDs, really. And since I only use Mandrake, that's all it really needs to work with. I haven't heard many horror stories about DVD and CD drives not being linux/mandrake friendly, but I figured being paranoid and asking suggestions first would be the best way to go anyways. I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. Thanks in advance! Amy -- I have 49 invites to gmail, do you have a gmail account yet? Do you want one? Talk to me! ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. I wouldn't sweat it at all. I have a no name 16x DVD ROM that has worked great from day one without a hitch. And I got it through www.pricewatch.com. Get it anywhere you want. Fry's, CompUSA, or a local Linux friendly retailer. Your LUG may have such a list on its website. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 10:22, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. I wouldn't sweat it at all. I have a no name 16x DVD ROM that has worked great from day one without a hitch. And I got it through www.pricewatch.com. Get it anywhere you want. Fry's, CompUSA, or a local Linux friendly retailer. Your LUG may have such a list on its website. FWIW I've never heard of anyone having a problem with DVD reader drives. Our own TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes seems to be pretty-well entirely about writers. The reader drive that I replaced a couple of months ago was 4 years old, so hardly the newest standard, and I had no problems with that either. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHFqmkFAvMr/nNX8RArgFAJ9TF5a5BvUp7Yq202yfwTwaJztiwwCdE/Ah PfqKaGCFu7mTQuLlgEDlIgc= =dlIM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:08:02 -0800, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. The oldest equipment in my main computer is a Toshiba SD-M1202 DVD drive. I've put it through its paces for years, and it's never so much as hiccuped. It's probably not made anymore, but if Toshiba's current drives are as good as their old ones, I'd highly recommend one. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 02:22 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and trustworthy. I'd really like to be able to walk into a store, pick up the drive, and install it when I get home... I don't want to have to wait on it being shipped, but will make due with that if I really really have to. I shop here http://actionsurplus.com/ they have a store in Sunnyvale and one in Palo Alto and here http://www.centralcomputer.com/ they have stores in Santa Clara Address 3777 Stevens Creek Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95051 Phone (408) 248-5888 Fax (408) 241-0390 And San Francisco Address 837 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Phone (415) 495-5888 Fax (415) 896-5888 and finaly Newark Address 5990 Mowry Avenue Newark, CA 94560 Phone (510) 793- Fax (510) 795-7888 And then if you are real desprate you can go to frys (too damn many stores) also my neighbor swears by microcenter in Santa Clara I wouldn't sweat it at all. I have a no name 16x DVD ROM that has worked great from day one without a hitch. And I got it through www.pricewatch.com. Get it anywhere you want. Fry's, CompUSA, or a local Linux friendly retailer. Your LUG may have such a list on its website. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD burning - this might be useful
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD burning - this might be useful
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless_dvd.htm Added to the TWiki on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DvD Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCC0YukFAvMr/nNX8RAkzIAKCWL5izjbrkZNJdLogCys0qbs8+EACgjcX/ 6XMbpsRwyz111ffdr8WXsnw= =qLjK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:42 + David G Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and everything is great! I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( This recorder will only accept DVD-R and DVD-RAM. For playback the type of drive seems to be the issue because I found that the Sony DVD rewiter in my laptop accepted the disks without complaint. So I'm happy. Thanks for your reply. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
Len Lawrence wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and everything is great! I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( HTH PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. -- Thanks, David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:48:42 + David G Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. DVD media is by far a complex topic when comparing the actual media and the technology relating to the -R and +R system. The DVD players (PC drives or consumer TV recorders) do not always support all available technologies. I have a DVD recorder in my PC which supports all formats, it writes to -RW disc just fine, but my Panasonic DVD player struggles to play them (spec says it does support it). Give it a +RW disk and everything is great! I think most people buy small packs of diff types of disk until they find one that works perfectly in their hardware, which is what I did. Not very scientific as it would be nice to simply trust the specs of the equipment :-( HTH PS: http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk this is my supplier for what its worth. Thanks for the encouragement; I will probably do the same, i.e. experiment. And thanks for the link. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
I have seen similar sites before, but this is the first one that google gave me: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers click on the player name to see a list of likely to work DVD brands. There are definitely other sites out there as well. HTH. On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:30:37 +, Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-R playback on Linux - slightly OT
Hi lads and lasses Does anybody know if it is possible to play finalized DVD-R disks with mplayer/xine/ogle? I have just installed a Panasonic DVD recorder and recorded a test disk with cable TV input. The disk plays back fine on the LCD television but the aforementioned players fail to read it at all under Mandrake 9.2. The disks are 4.7Mb recorded at 3x. Commercial DVDs play back without a problem in all three. Would DVD-RAM fare better? I chose DVD-R for permanent recording of some 20 year old videotapes which I would like to review on a PC or laptop. The front panel light flickers a bit and then a report comes back that libdvdread and libdvdcss failed. I have no idea if there is any encryption. An error window also appears with a message implying that there is no disk in the drive or that the medium is invalid or that there is a permissions problem (there isn't). Grateful for any leads. There does not seem to be any information on this particular topic on the web. -- Len Lawrence -- Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD Burner not recognized
Hi, When I installed 10.1, my computer no longer recognized my Sony DVD burner. Any one know what I should do to get this drive working? I believe it's a Sony DRU-530a Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd problems
Greetings, I seem to be having difficulty in getting my dvdrom to work. I can't get mplayer, kaffeine, or kdenlive to show me any video. Mplayer locks up and has to be killed, kaffeine doesn't have the required plugin. Could someone help me? I can't get tuxracer to work either, so there may be a connection. Mplayer caused my .xsession-errors file to grow to in excess of 175MB's! It was so large in fact that I was unable to open it. :-( I am using 10.1 with stock kernel and have installed all updates. My comp is a Dell Inspiron 1150 with 2.8Ghz P4, 512MB ram. My CD/DVD is a Sony CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX830E. TIA for any feedback. Best regards. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 15:01, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I seem to be having difficulty in getting my dvdrom to work. I can't get mplayer, kaffeine, or kdenlive to show me any video. Mplayer locks up and has to be killed, kaffeine doesn't have the required plugin. Could someone help me? I can't get tuxracer to work either, so there may be a connection. Mplayer caused my .xsession-errors file to grow to in excess of 175MB's! It was so large in fact that I was unable to open it. :-( I am using 10.1 with stock kernel and have installed all updates. My comp is a Dell Inspiron 1150 with 2.8Ghz P4, 512MB ram. My CD/DVD is a Sony CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX830E. Please also give details of your graphics card and maybe your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XF86-4.conf if you are not using 10.1) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBxfX6kFAvMr/nNX8RAhOqAKCHy4kWBNkgbZVU3kFhDDrUQo9H9ACcCade 55uPslhfNGIZVcn/KVVs++A= =AUD3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd problems
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd problems Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:43:22 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 15:01, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I seem to be having difficulty in getting my dvdrom to work. I can't get mplayer, kaffeine, or kdenlive to show me any video. Mplayer locks up and has to be killed, kaffeine doesn't have the required plugin. Could someone help me? I can't get tuxracer to work either, so there may be a connection. Mplayer caused my .xsession-errors file to grow to in excess of 175MB's! It was so large in fact that I was unable to open it. :-( I am using 10.1 with stock kernel and have installed all updates. My comp is a Dell Inspiron 1150 with 2.8Ghz P4, 512MB ram. My CD/DVD is a Sony CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX830E. Please also give details of your graphics card and maybe your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XF86-4.conf if you are not using 10.1) Anne ** Anne, thank you for your reply. My graphics are by way of Intel integrated direct AGP (85x Chipset Graphics Controller). I will attach my /etc/X11/xorg.conf for your perusal. Thanks once again. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze xorg.conf Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd problems
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 23:50 -0300, Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd problems Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:43:22 + -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 15:01, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I seem to be having difficulty in getting my dvdrom to work. I can't get mplayer, kaffeine, or kdenlive to show me any video. Mplayer locks up and has to be killed, kaffeine doesn't have the required plugin. Could someone help me? I can't get tuxracer to work either, so there may be a connection. Mplayer caused my .xsession-errors file to grow to in excess of 175MB's! It was so large in fact that I was unable to open it. :-( I am using 10.1 with stock kernel and have installed all updates. My comp is a Dell Inspiron 1150 with 2.8Ghz P4, 512MB ram. My CD/DVD is a Sony CD-RW/DVD-ROM CRX830E. Please also give details of your graphics card and maybe your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or XF86-4.conf if you are not using 10.1) Anne ** Anne, thank you for your reply. My graphics are by way of Intel integrated direct AGP (85x Chipset Graphics Controller). I will attach my /etc/X11/xorg.conf for your perusal. Thanks once again. :-) --Angus Stupid question: you installed libdvdcss, didn't you ? -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/ Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/imaginis usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 02:16:45 up 5:15, 1 user, load average: 0.51, 0.40, 0.46 ** Somos o que repetidamente fazemos. A excelência, portanto, não é um feito, mas um hábito. Aristóteles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 05:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Hi everyone On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the Mandrake site. I have been using a Liteon DVD-RW/CDRW on Mandrakes 10.0, 10.1beta2 and 10.1 Community with no problems whatsover. I would recommend these drives to anyone. cheers Duncan I don't know about other burners but although my Optorite works properly it is very picky about which brand of media I use, might be worth you making up a shortlist and then looking at the manufacturers website to see if they recommend particular brands [anyone want a pack of 10 Datawrite DVD+RW coasters :-)] -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 03:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the Mandrake site. BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... Todd newegg had the plextor DVD+- RW for about $90 with a $30 rebate. It works like a dream and is darn near silent when it operates. Smth! -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
Hi everyone On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the Mandrake site. I have been using a Liteon DVD-RW/CDRW on Mandrakes 10.0, 10.1beta2 and 10.1 Community with no problems whatsover. I would recommend these drives to anyone. cheers Duncan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD Burners
Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. Also I have tried to burn CD's using K3b and it gets to about 93% done and has an error 253 problem. Not every time either, go figure. Any ideas. TIA, B.J. Tracy Registered Linux User 364157 http://counter.li.org _ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilize Microsoft DRM encoded documents __ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:48:58 -0500 BJ Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. Also I have tried to burn CD's using K3b and it gets to about 93% done and has an error 253 problem. Not every time either, go figure. Any ideas. TIA, B.J. Tracy What kind of burner is it? Not that it really should matter. /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
SNIP I have looked for NEC but can not find any. I can get a Sony Model DW-U18A(8X speed). BJ Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. Also I have tried to burn CD's using K3b and it gets to about 93% done and has an error 253 problem. Not every time either, go figure. Any ideas. TIA, B.J. Tracy What kind of burner is it? Not that it really should matter. /Anders __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. I'm looking to do the same thing. Newegg has Liteon's for between $60 and $70 and I've heard that these are good (recommended by a few folks at work) but I don't see any info when I search the hardware compatibility on the Mandrake site. BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:40:11PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... OK, talking to myself, I just hit aolm and see that the iso's are starting to be made available on the ftp mirrors. t Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 21:19, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP I have looked for NEC but can not find any. I can get a Sony Model DW-U18A(8X speed). Most burners are fine, but like cd-burners, it pays to run them at less than the declared speed - you're much less likely to get errors. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBrOy1kFAvMr/nNX8RAvHzAJ9NQYPC6cikBvjlcEkLlYmcklIWLQCdFrMp 3jlYsDBC+s1q5oNEw9i+YKI= =ZbE+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Burners
On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 21:19, BJ Tracy wrote: SNIP I have looked for NEC but can not find any. I can get a Sony Model DW-U18A(8X speed). I used the Liteon 4X DVD/RW under 10 and then upgraded to the NEC 16X DVD/RW. No problems with either using 10.1 here :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd-ram disk
Hello! From what I've read, it is possible to write to dvd-ram disks, but unfortunately I'm not sure how I can do that. Any tips, please ? TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net Fotolog http://fotolog.terra.com.br/imaginis usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** A arte de ser sábio é a arte de saber o que tolerar. William James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd copy
Anyone know of any good dvd copy programmes , other than vobcopy, that can copy a dvd to HD in two roughly equal halves ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd copy
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 22:54, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone know of any good dvd copy programmes , other than vobcopy, that can copy a dvd to HD in two roughly equal halves ? John DVD::Rip -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- So, is the glass half empty, half full, or just twice as large as it needs to be? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-ROM
Does anyone have any experience with getting an Asus DVD-ROM E616 working with Mandrake 10 please. The system has found it and apparently configured it but it does not show on KDE desktop. DVD placed in the drawer activate it and the led is live. Any ideas please. N. --- This outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.766 / Virus Database: 513 - Release Date: 17/09/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd autoplay non totem
Is there a way to have dvd's autoplay without using totem? I tried to get mplayer to be the default by going to config kde somethingorother file associations, mp* and moved mplayer up above totem. When I insert a dvd now it doesn't autoplay. Yes, this is kde on mdk10.0, for a friend. Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 18:24, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 17:30, Pedro Blom wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 18.12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? /Pedro On mine its printed on the lable that has the serial # on it. Otherwise I don't know. Apparantely I was wrong. The # that I assumed was the firmware version is listed as TLA # 206. This number does not agree with Bryan's number or the Plextor website which shows 1.06 both of which agree. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Saturday 21 August 2004 16.09, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2004 07:01 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Apparantely I was wrong. The # that I assumed was the firmware version is listed as TLA # 206. This number does not agree with Bryan's number or the Plextor website which shows 1.06 both of which agree. The most current version of the firmware for that drive is 1.07 IIRC. So, you might want to download the current one and upgrade. Yes. I have downloded to a temp. directory the firmware: 708A107.bin and The Plextor update program PXUpdate for UNIX: pxupdate-1.38-i686-pc-linux-gnu. I dont understand how to do the actuall upgrade. Could you do a step by step instruction. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Saturday 21 August 2004 09:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2004 07:01 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Apparantely I was wrong. The # that I assumed was the firmware version is listed as TLA # 206. This number does not agree with Bryan's number or the Plextor website which shows 1.06 both of which agree. The most current version of the firmware for that drive is 1.07 IIRC. So, you might want to download the current one and upgrade. OK thanks I'll put it on the todo list. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Saturday 21 August 2004 10:52 am, Pedro Blom wrote: Yes. I have downloded to a temp. directory the firmware: 708A107.bin and The Plextor update program PXUpdate for UNIX: pxupdate-1.38-i686-pc-linux-gnu. I dont understand how to do the actuall upgrade. Could you do a step by step instruction. I don't know where you got the PXupdate tool and don't know if it will work or not. I use a dos bootdisk to update firmware, you can download one and make a boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Saturday 21 August 2004 09:56 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2004 09:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 21 August 2004 07:01 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Apparantely I was wrong. The # that I assumed was the firmware version is listed as TLA # 206. This number does not agree with Bryan's number or the Plextor website which shows 1.06 both of which agree. The most current version of the firmware for that drive is 1.07 IIRC. So, you might want to download the current one and upgrade. OK thanks I'll put it on the todo list. While reading this thread, I got curious about updating my cd-rw. Either 'hdparm -i /dev/hd?' or 'cdrecord -scanbus' will show the firmware revision number. Mine was 1.02, Plextor's site had 1.05, and the changelog cited improved write support. So I got these files from their ftp site. PremiumV105.bin pxupdate-1.38-i686-pc-linux-gnu* PXUpdate.txt (the bin came in a .zip file, but ark handled it) According to the .txt readme it all seemed pretty well straightforward. Boot to init 1, and run the updater. So I did, but at lvl 1 the OS couldn't find /dev/sg*. I halted and then booted to lvl 3, cd'd to the dir in /home/tom/ I had the above files in, and ran (as root), ./pxupdate-1.38-i686-pc-linux-gnu dev=ATA:1,1,0 -l which correctly found my burner. Then I ran, ./pxupdate-1.38-i686-pc-linux-gnu dev=ATA:1,1,0 PremiumV105.bin which gave me a warning that I should be in lvl 1, but asked, continue y/n? I chose 'y' and the flash was successfully completed in a few seconds. tom # hdparm -i /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: Model=PLEXTOR CD-R PREMIUM, FwRev=1.05, SerialNo=115897 Nothin to it, easy as pie ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 11:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. Thanks I'll check it. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 18.12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? /Pedro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 06:30 pm, Pedro Blom wrote: I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? If you have K3b installed, go to Settings, Configure k3b, Devices and check the version of the Plextor drive, that is the firmware version. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD unit Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL
On Friday 20 August 2004 17:30, Pedro Blom wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 18.12, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 10:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Received the unit yesterday and installed it booted the system and it just works. Did backup on CD/RW 4x and read some mp3 disks all OK. Havent did any DVD yet but k3b is set up for that so I don't exect a problem. All in all a good unit. Check the firmware version and if it is not up to date with current version on Plextor's web site, you want to do that right away. I did have some dvd media detection issues at one time, upgrading the firmware sorted it right out. I have the same drive. How can I check the current version of of my firmware? /Pedro On mine its printed on the lable that has the serial # on it. Otherwise I don't know. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives
On Sunday 15 August 2004 23:32, julie wrote: I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take advantage ... Anyone know anything about I/OMagic or Micro Advantage products? Thanks, Julie Owens I just went through this and settled on a Plextor PX-708A/SW-BL, but thats me. Pioneer DVD108 was also highly recommended. Look at tomshardware some good info there also google is your friend for things like this. For priicing pricegrabber.com is handy. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives
Charlie Mahan wrote: as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take advantage ... Anyone know anything about I/OMagic or Micro Advantage products? Thanks, Julie Owens Either, both, which do you want, stay away from the dual layer types because of price, and almost total lack of blank media, this is a run-on sentence isn't it? Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org I am going to diagree here. I just bought the LG 4120B _because_ it is a dual layer dvd burner that doesnt require a firmware upgrade to write dl disks (dvd+r9). YES media availability and price is a problem currently ($10US at sonystyle.com). But it is a 12X (+r) burner (or 2.4X dual layer) which works very well under mandrake 10. I paid $130 CAD here in edmonton at OEM express (roughly 100US). I expect that in a year I will be able to purchase reasonably priced dual layer disks that will allow me to make 1:1 copies of dvd's, or store 8.5gb of data. As a side note I have installed the newest version of K3B from cooker which now supports dual layer burning. I read this review which convinced me this was the one to get: http://cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=234 Joe. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives
I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take advantage ... Anyone know anything about I/OMagic or Micro Advantage products? Thanks, Julie Owens Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:32 pm, julie wrote: I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take advantage ... Anyone know anything about I/OMagic or Micro Advantage products? Thanks, Julie Owens I know Pioneer works out of the box and suspect that any standards compliant device will work, unless like LG they screw up the embedded software. That said I have seen some discussion on the list about problems with I/O Magic. Do a google.com/linux search on the DVD+/-RW devices and see what pops up. HTH -- Dennis M. Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD +/-RW / +/-R drives
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 August 2004 22:32:10, julie wrote: I've searched the Internet until I'm bleary eyed and hunted through archives and not come up with an answer as to which DVD +/-RW / +/-R might work with Mandrake Official 10. There are some tempting sales on right now and I'd like to take advantage ... Anyone know anything about I/OMagic or Micro Advantage products? Thanks, Julie Owens Yes, I love sales. But I always miss them. Either, both, which do you want, stay away from the dual layer types because of price, and almost total lack of blank media, this is a run-on sentence isn't it? :-) The software is built into the backend for the burning applications now. I've actually had decent success with the LG 4082B, Lite-On (various models and speeds) haven't had a complaint about the Sony I installed last week yet, anything by Plextor is great usually, if you don't mind the price tag, and as far as I know everything by all the known brand name manufacturers will read and write all those types now. Multi type drives are common now. I'll stick with the ones I know for now, the ones I've listed above. A friend just bought one yesterday, but I don't know which of the BenQs available locally, so I'm pasting details below for the more expensive. Knowing her that's what she ended up with. g If it goes boom I'll post that here but I doubt it did or will. She installed it last night and hasn't called screeching so it must be OK. Trust me, I'd hear about it if she had trouble. She's actually running Beta1 of Mandrake 10.1 but i don't know that that would make a huge difference. _Not_ a recommendation. I don't know the equipment yet. BenQ DW822A DVD Rewriter Drive Retail (New Arrival) DVD+RW Speed - 8x4x12x, DVD-RW Speed - 4x2x12x, CD Speed - 24x10x40x, Double-Layer (+R9) Upgradeable, 8MB Buffer $ 105.83 Notice it writes almost any of the media out of the box, and is upgradeable (firmware) when the dual layer media are finally available. The price is in Canadian $ at a retail shop locally, so multiply by .75 to convert to U.S.$. Close enough anyway. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 22:45:22 up 12:13, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.13 Moe: What did you give your wife for Valentine's Day? Joe: The usual gift -- she ate my heart out. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIEJ/ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqZTAKCrsljtQOy8CEB3blg8IMl48U+2igCfXW3a zh9F23SAywU1CXKZ60IDy4E= =3dv0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD to CD
Hi all, I recently obtained a copy of SuSE 9.1 thanks to Novell. However, this version of Linux comes on a DVD. Is there any way (perhaps in K3B?) to rip the DVD then burn it to several CDs? I would assume some type of index files would need to be inserted on every CD? Thanks in advance... __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD to CD
Monday 12 July 2004 15.36 skrev Bryan Phinney: On Monday 12 July 2004 08:03 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I recently obtained a copy of SuSE 9.1 thanks to Novell. However, this version of Linux comes on a DVD. Is there any way (perhaps in K3B?) to rip the DVD then burn it to several CDs? I would assume some type of index files would need to be inserted on every CD? You might do better to ask about creating SuSE CD's on a SuSE mailing list. Short of someone here just happening to have done the same thing, I don't know that there would be a definitive answer. I am assuming that you would be more likely to run into someone familiar with the exact SuSE distribution specifics on a mailing list devoted to SuSE. I would like to do the same thing with the Mandrake 10.0 Workstation DVD. I would like to burn it to CDs. Anyone know how to do that, or where to read about it? Pedro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD to CD
On Monday 12 July 2004 03:59 pm, Pedro Blom wrote: I would like to do the same thing with the Mandrake 10.0 Workstation DVD. I would like to burn it to CDs. Anyone know how to do that, or where to read about it? Well, you can download ISO images for Mandrake, so I wouldn't know why you would want to make your own from a DVD. However, if you want to build custom CD images http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MakeCD -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD to CD
On Monday 12 July 2004 03:59 pm, Pedro Blom wrote: Monday 12 July 2004 15.36 skrev Bryan Phinney: On Monday 12 July 2004 08:03 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I recently obtained a copy of SuSE 9.1 thanks to Novell. However, this version of Linux comes on a DVD. Is there any way (perhaps in K3B?) to rip the DVD then burn it to several CDs? I would assume some type of index files would need to be inserted on every CD? You might do better to ask about creating SuSE CD's on a SuSE mailing list. Short of someone here just happening to have done the same thing, I don't know that there would be a definitive answer. I am assuming that you would be more likely to run into someone familiar with the exact SuSE distribution specifics on a mailing list devoted to SuSE. I would like to do the same thing with the Mandrake 10.0 Workstation DVD. I would like to burn it to CDs. Anyone know how to do that, or where to read about it? Pedro There is a script to make CD's from the dist tree in the misc directory on the DVD. Instructions on how to use it are here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MakeCD Since the HOWTO was written for the cooker repository, just replace cooker with official throughout the document. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD to CD
On Monday 12 July 2004 04:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 July 2004 03:59 pm, Pedro Blom wrote: I would like to do the same thing with the Mandrake 10.0 Workstation DVD. I would like to burn it to CDs. Anyone know how to do that, or where to read about it? Well, you can download ISO images for Mandrake, so I wouldn't know why you would want to make your own from a DVD. Perhaps somebody owns the Powerpack DVD, is on dial-up and wants to install Mandrake on a machine that doesn't have a DVD drive. I'm just speculating, but I suppose there is a plausible reason. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] DVD decoder
Thanks, Yves -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josenildo Marques Sent: June 29, 2004 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD decoder Em Ter, 2004-06-29 às 11:05, Yves Arsenault escreveu: Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by 'decoder', but if you want to copy a DVD, use vobcopy. $ vobcopy -m will make an exact copy of your DVD. # urpmq -i vobcopy extracting vobcopy-0.5.13-2plf.i586 Name: vobcopy Version : 0.5.13 Release : 2plf Group : Video Size: 61674Architecture: i586 Source RPM : vobcopy-0.5.13-2plf.src.rpmBuild Host: taz.eijk.nu Packager: Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.linux-programming-newbie.org/ Summary : Copy DVD videos to the hard disk Description : Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to hard disk (thanks to libdvdread), decrypting them on the way (if libdvdcss is installed) and merges them into 2 GB files (or larger) with the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in case something went wrong during the copying). It can also mirror a whole DVD video part and copy single files. This is in PLF as libdvdcss has to be in PLF. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** Um bom jornalista é um sujeito que esvazia totalmente a cabeça para o dono do jornal encher nababescamente a barriga. Barão de Itararé --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.713 / Virus Database: 469 - Release Date: 30/06/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD decoder
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:05 am, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves google for dvdrip. It is a GUI that uses transcode and others. Runs well on 10.0. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD decoder
Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD decoder
Em Ter, 2004-06-29 às 11:05, Yves Arsenault escreveu: Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by 'decoder', but if you want to copy a DVD, use vobcopy. $ vobcopy -m will make an exact copy of your DVD. # urpmq -i vobcopy extracting vobcopy-0.5.13-2plf.i586 Name: vobcopy Version : 0.5.13 Release : 2plf Group : Video Size: 61674Architecture: i586 Source RPM : vobcopy-0.5.13-2plf.src.rpmBuild Host: taz.eijk.nu Packager: Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.linux-programming-newbie.org/ Summary : Copy DVD videos to the hard disk Description : Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to hard disk (thanks to libdvdread), decrypting them on the way (if libdvdcss is installed) and merges them into 2 GB files (or larger) with the name extracted from the DVD. It checks for enough free space on the destination drive and compares the copied size to the size on DVD (in case something went wrong during the copying). It can also mirror a whole DVD video part and copy single files. This is in PLF as libdvdcss has to be in PLF. -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ** Um bom jornalista é um sujeito que esvazia totalmente a cabeça para o dono do jornal encher nababescamente a barriga. Barão de Itararé Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD-writer added to 10.0 Official
Hi, folks. I have just added a DVD-writer to my ML 10.0 box. I'm wondering if everything is OK...Cdrecord shows the following message. $ cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 # # # Warning: Using ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Use dev=ATA:X,Y,Z or dev=/dev/hdX # # Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.81 04/04/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4320B' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4082B' 'A201' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * The brand is LG, model is GSA-4082B. Aby help appreciated, as always. TIA -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 Este computador está livre de vírus e da Micosoft ** In heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Movie making
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 08:34, Michael Adolf wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 01:06 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone know of a good DVD authoring package? With menu creation? Thanks! Have you looked at: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net Mike I'll give it a try when I get a minute. Thanks! -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Movie making
On Friday 11 June 2004 01:06 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone know of a good DVD authoring package? With menu creation? Thanks! Have you looked at: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD Movie making
Hi All, This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone know of a good DVD authoring package? With menu creation? Thanks! -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd/cdrw
Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for burning. But here we break new ground. What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. BTW, anyone need a Dell (actual brand unknown at this point) cdrom? I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: -What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have -paid attention. I use Mplayer and Kaffeine. -I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a -movie on a laptop. sigh - -Lee During the summer, when its slow at work, I watch DVDs... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:08 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the movie came on the screen. I'm beginning to see why the newbie list is down to 100 a week instead of 100 a day. Noatun or somesuch started, so fiddling is in order, but I can't imagine that happening just a short time ago. Then I took out the dvd and put in an old 9.2 disk. The drive immediately mounted. I clicked on the new icon and konq jumped up with the directory. I closed the directory and took the disk out. Drive unmounted and icon went back to iconland. Makes me want to change something else. Right now. I do have a free CDRom drive available if anyone needs one. It's a Samsung cd-Master Model SN-124, very low mileage. If nobody wants it, I'll put in the closet with years of yesterday stuff waiting for somebody to break one before it's obsolete. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 06:06 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: - -I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions -provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran -automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the -movie came on the screen. Lee, if you don't mind me being curious (and considering I've got the 1100 too) how much did it cost you to get the DVD/CDRW combo for it? Thanks! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:06 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:08 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the movie came on the screen. I'm beginning to see why the newbie list is down to 100 a week instead of 100 a day. Noatun or somesuch started, so fiddling is in order, but I can't imagine that happening just a short time ago. Then I took out the dvd and put in an old 9.2 disk. The drive immediately mounted. I clicked on the new icon and konq jumped up with the directory. I closed the directory and took the disk out. Drive unmounted and icon went back to iconland. Makes me want to change something else. Right now. I do have a free CDRom drive available if anyone needs one. It's a Samsung cd-Master Model SN-124, very low mileage. If nobody wants it, I'll put in the closet with years of yesterday stuff waiting for somebody to break one before it's obsolete. Lee DVDroms are _very_expensive_ in my experience. My old CDrom drive expired, so I replaced it with a Teac DVDrom, $36. Then $400 of DVD's later .. ; Then I also need to replace a perfectly good 17 CRT monitor (15.8 viewable), with a $650 19.3 viewable LCD monitor ;))) Then I replaced a perfectly good VCR with a $100 DVD/Vcr player for the TV, an bought a surround sound speaker system for the TV. Similar to the one I already had for the computer. All in all I reckon that damn $36 CDrom to DVDrom replacement cost me well over $1,200. I just gave the old stuff to friends or Goodwill. Seriously tho I usealias dvdp1='mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/scd0' I also have dvdp2,3,4,5,6... to view other tracks on the DVD. This is all with PLF-mdk versions of mplayerhttp://plf.zarb.org/ Currently mplayer-1.0-0.pre4.5plf Main reason I advocate usin mplayer on the CL is because, unlike GUI's, contrast, brightness, tint, color levels, sound volume are instantly adjustable on-the-fly right from the keyboard. Just tap 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, or 9-0. Some DVD's start, the sound is goin, but the screen is completely black. Tapping the 'f' key twice immediately restores full screen video. Plus no damn GUI window frame. Just tap the Space-bar to pause, arrow keys (- or -) will goback or advance the movie. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:02:58AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh It's for if you don't want to pay $7.95 for the lame hotel porn. Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:02 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for burning. But here we break new ground. What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. BTW, anyone need a Dell (actual brand unknown at this point) cdrom? I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh Lee Some of us are on solar power and need to conserve power as much as possible, so running a lappy with a DVD rather than a television with a DVD player as well [ combined about 600 watts as opposed to 90 watts ] makes good electrical economic sense. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:17 am, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks. I'll try that. Eric I discovered, by running top, that it is fam holding onto the device, as CDROM in my experience, and when I kill that the CD is permitted to eject. HTH Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. .Ugo Betti ___ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 07:37, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: James Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right clicking the Desktop Icon, and selecting Unmount. Red Hat was a beggar for doing that to me.. JRH When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could unmount the DVD. I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Close any instance of Konqueror, then you should be able to use the eject button. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] dvd drive won't exit
Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. Thanks. I'll try that. Eric -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably you will have to unmount it first. In a terminal,cd /etc/mnt, su to root, type umount cdrom or whatever it is named in your /etc/fstab. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * http://www.haulrich.net * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right clicking the Desktop Icon, and selecting Unmount. Red Hat was a beggar for doing that to me.. JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 21:52:53 up 10:45, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 1.00, 1.13 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
- Original Message - From: James Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and the drive locked. Try using the eject command and see if that works. If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right clicking the Desktop Icon, and selecting Unmount. Red Hat was a beggar for doing that to me.. JRH When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could unmount the DVD. I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10CE Microsoft: Which Virus Would You Like to Catch Today? Registered Linux User #340061 21:52:53 up 10:45, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 1.00, 1.13 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:37 pm, eric jackson wrote: When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could unmount the DVD. I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Once you have accessed the drive in a konsole window or through konqueror, you must close all of those windows before you can unmount the drive. If you still have the window open, even if you are no longer in the mount point, the drive will remain mounted and you will be unable to remove the disk. Simply close all windows that you used to access the drive and then you should be able to use the cd button to open the drive. Also, if you are still using magicdev, you may want to uninstall it and switch over to supermount for the drive. Magicdev causes some issues and is considered to still be unstable. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:27, John Richard Smith wrote: I cannot anwser your question , but I am curious to know how well your DVD writer works under linux. DVD writer are becoming cheap enough here in the UK now. John I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK Linux comics it came out top - if I recall it was the only device that would write DVD RAM discs. Paul M -- And, in the beginning, Man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 12:34, Paul wrote: I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK Linux comics it came out top - if I recall it was the only device that would write DVD RAM discs. Could you add that info to the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes please? We're very short of info in dvd writers. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdo06kFAvMr/nNX8RAtSJAJ96dDwAC9GwDl+gCsZUlfQkEdPUygCfYqC+ 4JLz4XZjMtWCPAOhPXnd2hE= =66ff -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:44, John Richard Smith wrote: Paul wrote: I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK Linux comics it came out top - if I recall it was the only device that would write DVD RAM discs. Paul M That is good news. Which writer programmes does it work with ? John Just the k3b front-end. Regarding the Twiki - there's nothing to write -works straight out of the box. Paul M -- And, in the beginning, Man created god. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)
On Friday 09 April 2004 10:26 am, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:44, John Richard Smith wrote: Paul wrote: I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK Linux comics it came out top - if I recall it was the only device that would write DVD RAM discs. Paul M That is good news. Which writer programmes does it work with ? John Just the k3b front-end. Regarding the Twiki - there's nothing to write -works straight out of the box. Paul M might be good to know if you are using supermount, /devfs/ and-or magicdev -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 15:26, Paul wrote: Regarding the Twiki - there's nothing to write -works straight out of the box. Good - but if people like John could see that written on the TWiki it would help them make the decision. The TWiki is not just about problems :-) Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdtODkFAvMr/nNX8RAiHbAJ9f5Q1Ut9i5llmjbyxcSkjTo8PocwCfaZPt XPWYNr7IjNjGpHdzo+5C3fM= =c2l0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 15:26, Paul wrote: Regarding the Twiki - there's nothing to write -works straight out of the box. Good - but if people like John could see that written on the TWiki it would help them make the decision. The TWiki is not just about problems :-) Anne - -- Quite right Anne, we need to know what works and what does not work, and having somewhere people with forward experience can report on success and not so successful hardware helps us to make better hardware decisions, and at the same time puts pressure on manufacturers to think seriously about ignoring linux. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:10:11 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 April 2004 06:42, Steve Mazil wrote: On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:35:17 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 08:05 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. All ATAPI should work in theory, that doesn't necessarily apply to external USB devices. I have used a Plextor, and HP DVD Burner and various other CD devices successfully with 9.0, 9.1 and now 10.0. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I'm currently using a LiteOn LDW 451s with Mandrake 10. Cdr, cdrw and dvd+rw successful burns so far. Steve Mazil Could you add that to the TWiki, please, Steve? We are short of info on DVD writers. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes Anne Anne I've added the above to the TWiki DVDDriVes under the Atapi heading with a link to the product information on the LiteOn web site for that drive. It's the first time I've done this on a TWiki web site so I hope it's done right. Steve Mazil -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Community) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:46:32 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:22, Steve Mazil wrote: Anne I've added the above to the TWiki DVDDriVes under the Atapi heading with a link to the product information on the LiteOn web site for that drive. It's the first time I've done this on a TWiki web site so I hope it's done right. Good start, then, Steve. The only thing it needed was a heading symbol so that it shows up in the Table of Contents. I've put it in for you. Take a look at the page in edit mode and you'll see what I did. HTH for next time ;-) Anne - -- Thanks for the correction, I think I read through the text formatting rules but forgot about the heading when I added the info. I should have left the text formatting window open so I could refer back to it (next time). Steve Mazil -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Community) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
Hello, I am planning to buy a DVD writer to use for mandrake 9.2. I am not sure what to buy. Does anybody have a good suggestion for a DVD writer make and model? I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. Thanks Jean-Pierre Real Design/Process Engineer t: +44 1494 450 539 f: +44 1494 530 518 www.kilnflame.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
Jean-Pierre Real wrote: Hello, I am planning to buy a DVD writer to use for mandrake 9.2. I am not sure what to buy. Does anybody have a good suggestion for a DVD writer make and model? I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. Thanks Jean-Pierre Real Design/Process Engineer t: +44 1494 450 539 f: +44 1494 530 518 www.kilnflame.com No problems with LG, Pioneer or Plextor at this end. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Monday 05 April 2004 08:05 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. All ATAPI should work in theory, that doesn't necessarily apply to external USB devices. I have used a Plextor, and HP DVD Burner and various other CD devices successfully with 9.0, 9.1 and now 10.0. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 08:05 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. All ATAPI should work in theory, that doesn't necessarily apply to external USB devices. I have used a Plextor, and HP DVD Burner and various other CD devices successfully with 9.0, 9.1 and now 10.0. Yeah, maybe I should have qualified that. I don't do external drives. If it ain't internal, it don't happen for me. There's probably a need and use for them, but not in my world. Not need, not used. But Brian ( maybe we should just call him Brain ? It would make sense, and would be more accurate! ) has a definite point. The success of USB, Serial and (Ugh!) Parallel devices has been somewhat sketchy. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD writter supported by mandrake 9.2
On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:35:17 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 08:05 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I tried to have a look around and found some threads regarding DVD writer that said that all dvd writer should work in theory, but I would prefer to buy something that has been successfully used by a mandrake user. All ATAPI should work in theory, that doesn't necessarily apply to external USB devices. I have used a Plextor, and HP DVD Burner and various other CD devices successfully with 9.0, 9.1 and now 10.0. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer I'm currently using a LiteOn LDW 451s with Mandrake 10. Cdr, cdrw and dvd+rw successful burns so far. Steve Mazil -- __ Mandrake Linux 10.0 (Community) Kernel 2.6.3-7mdkenterprise i686 http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD playback question
Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer. I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart). Video plays fine. Audio is fine thru the opening credits, interim screens and main menu. Pick any of the actual songs themselves though, and I get nothing but HISS. Kinda reminds you of the hiss on a dead channel on TV. Trying to play it from the command line with Mplayer gives an error message to the effect that there are too many audio packets. It suggests that if its an AVI file to use the -ni option. Well, its DVD and not AVI but I tried it anyways and it didn't make a difference. Thanks in advance! -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD playback question
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer. I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart). Video plays fine. Audio is fine thru the opening credits, interim screens and main menu. Pick any of the actual songs themselves though, and I get nothing but HISS. Kinda reminds you of the hiss on a dead channel on TV. Trying to play it from the command line with Mplayer gives an error message to the effect that there are too many audio packets. It suggests that if its an AVI file to use the -ni option. Well, its DVD and not AVI but I tried it anyways and it didn't make a difference. Thanks in advance! Ronald; This is just a stab in the dark, but the actual music audio may have some protection built in or encrypted into the files or the disc itself. It's more likely that you're missing a compression codec or that your audio may not be set to handle the playback or bitrate of these files, but I thought it was worth mentioning. This might not be Microsoft's DRM crap, but possibly Macrovision's ACP protection by the sound of it ( No pun intended ). I'm assuming that you don't have problems playing back other DVD's, so my guess is either a missing codec or protection technology. This doesn't help much , but if all else fails, I didn't want you beating your head against the wall. Good drywall guys are hard to find these days, and you'd end up with a nasty hole in the wall. Grin! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] DVD playback question
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:11 pm, Lanman wrote: snip - of it ( No pun intended ). I'm assuming that you don't have problems -playing back other DVD's, so my guess is either a missing codec or -protection technology. Correct - its the first one I've had problems with. -This doesn't help much , but if all else fails, I didn't want you -beating your head against the wall. Good drywall guys are hard to find -these days, and you'd end up with a nasty hole in the wall. Grin! - -Lanman grin Understood, and thanks for the reply. I might go codec looking on Mplayers home page, see if I can find something I don't currently have. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] DVD regions?
Hell His there a limitation with the DVD regions under linux like with XP? I have zone 1 and 2 DVDs. What a stupid thing this limitation since you can buy original region 1 movies in a region 2 country. I looked at Kaffeine and I can change the region in the input section of the xine config window but is there a limit of changes like in XP? Thanks Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
