[NTLUG:Discuss] DVD writing problems.

[Steve Baker]

./aal wrote:
> 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
>   
Well, I suspected that might be the problem with the version of K3b that 
came with SuSE 9.3
so I grabbed the sources for the very latest K3b and built from scratch.

All of the menu items for dealing with DVD's are there - and it opens a 
dialog window when
I hit the "Burn ISO-DVD..." entry in the main menu...everything looks 
like it's working - right
up to the time when I should be able to say "Start" - but the "Start" 
button is greyed out and
where it should be displaying the drive name, it says "Please insert a 
blank disk" (or something
like that).   I put the blank disk in, and shut the tray - and...nothing.
> 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.
>   
Well, the version of cdrdao (which I gather is the low level tool that 
K3b uses) is the one they
specify for the very latest K3b - and I rebuilt K3b with the latest code 
AFTER installing the new
drive.  I also went through SuSE's "yast2" tool to make sure it had 
recognised the hardware and
installed the drivers.   The drivers for this new Pioneer drive are the 
generic ones - which are what
my previous CD-ROM drive used.