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Excessive

Member

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 13

CD-Writer problem

Hello all,

I'm trying to use my CD-Writer but it doesn't work with Arch. I'm using current arch (always up-to-date).

Here are my details:

[excessive@Excessive ~]$ groups
video audio optical storage users

[excessive@Excessive ~]$ ls /dev/*cd* -al
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-10-19 04:46 /dev/cdrom ->
/dev/cd/cdrom-hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-10-19 04:46 /dev/cdrom0 ->
/dev/cd/cdrom-hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-10-19 04:46 /dev/cdrw -> /dev/cd/cdrw-hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-10-19 04:46 /dev/cdrw0 -> 
/dev/cd/cdrw-hdc

/dev/cd:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 0 2006-10-19 04:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 0 2006-10-19 01:46 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 6 2006-10-19 04:46 cdrom-hdc -> ../hdc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 6 2006-10-19 04:46 cdrw-hdc -> ../hdc

[excessive@Excessive ~]$ stat /dev/cdrom
  File: `/dev/cdrom' -> `/dev/cd/cdrom-hdc'
  Size: 17              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: dh/13d  Inode: 3345        Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2006-10-19 04:46:08.528709000 +0300
Modify: 2006-10-19 04:46:08.528709000 +0300
Change: 2006-10-19 04:46:08.528709000 +0300
[excessive@Excessive ~]$ 

Here is the screenshot of XCDRoast:

http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/848/xcdroastxx2.png

Lots of friends at #archlinux channel tried to help me, I want to thank them for their efforts. But no matter what we did, it didn't work. Anybody faced this problem?

Thank you.

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once

Member

From: Taiwan

Registered: 2006-09-12

Posts: 266

Re: CD-Writer problem

I got the same problem, since up to date gnome-2.16 and kernel-18.

Alexo

Member

From: near a cup of coffee

Registered: 2005-06-27

Posts: 90

Re: CD-Writer problem

anything in errors.log?

# grep xcdroast /usr/var/log/errors.log

I noticed that you run xcdroast as root. You should run it as user instead.
Anyway, try to burn cds with command line cdrecord. It gives you a better feel of the process, at least while you're trying to figure things out.