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dr-sad

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Registered: 2008-02-22

Posts: 2

k3b dvd problem

Hi there,
I have a VAIO laptop (VGN-TX2XRP) and it has the CD/DVD writer.
I have installed "k3b" and than "dvd+rw-tools" through pacman. When I start k3b it says:

What I have to do?

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: k3b dvd problem

Do you know if your drive is detected at all - i.e. can you play a DVD movie with it?

If not, insert a DVD and post up the output of:

mount /media/dvd

Could you post up what's in your /etc/fstab as it could be a mount point problem.

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Holloway

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From: Berlin/Germany

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 2

Re: k3b dvd problem

I had the same problem yesterday. The solution is to put your user in the optical group.
You can look with an

ls -l /dev | grep sr

in what group the device is in.
The output from me:

[holloway@workstation] ~$ ls -l /dev | grep sr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          17 25. Mär 11:32 cdrom -> /dev/cd/cdrom-sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          17 25. Mär 11:32 cdrom0 -> /dev/cd/cdrom-sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          16 25. Mär 11:32 cdrw -> /dev/cd/cdrw-sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          16 25. Mär 11:32 cdrw0 -> /dev/cd/cdrw-sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          15 25. Mär 11:32 dvd -> /dev/cd/dvd-sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          15 25. Mär 11:32 dvd0 -> /dev/cd/dvd-sr0
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root           0 25. Mär 10:34 log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root           3 25. Mär 11:32 scd0 -> sr0
brw-rw---- 1 root optical  11,   0 25. Mär 11:32 sr0

Then log in with your root account and do a

usermod -aG optical <your_username>

and restart k3b.

Greetz

Last edited by Holloway (2008-03-25 15:26:31)