[ale] Mandrake 10.1 Official & K3b

[Sergio Chaves]

What exactly is the problem?
Can you burn as root?
Have you checked the permissions on your CD-ROM device?
As I mentioned before, I had to insert "chmod 660 /dev/XXX" in
my rc.local.
Mandrake was changing it back to 600 when re-booting.

Raylynn Knight wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 05:46 -0500, Sergio Chaves wrote:
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>> From K3b.org:
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>>
>>  "Do not use Kernel 2.6.8
>>
>>A patch that was introduced into the kernel shortly before the 2.6.8 
>>release makes K3b and also the dvd+rw-tools unusable on Linux (unless 
>>run as root but that is not recommended). The very important GET 
>>CONFIGURATION MMC command is rejected by the kernel for reasons I cannot 
>>see and writing commands like MODE SELECT also fail (K3b cannot detect 
>>CD writers without it) even when the device is opened O_RDWR. Until this 
>>issue has been solved I strongly recommend to stick to kernel version 
>>2.6.7.
>>
>>Update: The kernel guys are currently fixing the problem so the next 
>>kernel release should work again. :)
>>
>>Update 2: The problem is NOT fixed in 2.6.8.1
>>
>>Update 3: Be aware that kernel 2.6.8 also contains the memory leak which 
>>makes it impossible to write audio cds, even as root."
>>
>>I use mandrake 10.1 and upgraded to kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk.
>>I also had to change the permissions on /dev/cdrom - /dev/dvd to let me 
>>use it. originaly, only root had access to it.
>>
>>My 2 cents.
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>Kernel 2.6.8.1-10 and 2.6.8.1-12 both from Mandrake don't solve the
>problem.  Reverting to the last kernel I had for Mandrake 10.0
>(2.6.3-19mdk) and rebooting gives me a working k3b.  Rebooting again
>with the 2.6.8.1-10 or 2.6.8.1-12 kernels gives me a non-working k3b.
>I'd say this is a problem with the 2.6.8.1 kernels.  I guess Mandrake
>doesn't do a very good job of testing the functionality of their kernel
>updates!!!
>
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