[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[./aal]

this may seem obvious, but have you got the dvd issue of k3b?
there are plugins for dvd that are not in every bin of k3b
also there are dvd libs and tools that k3b will need

since you did not have the dvd drive when you installed your OS perhaps you
need something that wasnt there because it didnt need to be there when you
set up the system.

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Brian Rogers <brog45 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you watch /var/log/syslog when you put in a disk, does it say anything
> about the drive and/or its media?
>
> /* Brian Rogers, professional geek, coffee achiever */
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Steve Baker <steve at sjbaker.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm planning to upgrade my main box from SuSE 9.3 to OpenSuSE 11.0, so I
> > need to burn a DVD full of freshly downloaded goodies.  Sadly, my aging
> > CD-Writer can't write DVD's - so I went out and bought a shiney new $40
> > Pioneer DVR-116D and a box of DVD-RW disks - which the drive claims to
> > be able to write at 20x.  It claims to be able to write all of the
> > combinations of -RW, -R, +RW, etc.
> >
> > I'm using K3b for burning disks...been using it for years.
> >
> > I can burn CD-ROMs with the new drive - no problem - so it's obviously
> > connected up alright.  But K3b refuses to burn an iso-DVD.
> >
> > It picks up the drive name OK - it recommended that I turn on IDE DMA
> > for it - which I did - and it recommended that I remove the drive's
> > entry in /etc/fstab - which I did.  I tried upgrading to the latest
> > version of K3b - it doesn't make a difference.  It looks like K3d
> > doesn't recognise that there is a disk in the tray - it keeps telling me
> > to load a disk and no matter what I do with the drive's disk tray - K3d
> > just doesn't seem to notice.
> >
> > Seems weird that it can detect that a CD is in the drive but not a DVD.
> >
> > At this point, I'm completely stuck.  I can't imagine how this could be
> > going wrong.  Help!
> >
> >   -- Steve.
> >
> >
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