Installing DVD writer: K3b does not recognize

Hi all,

I had a CD Burner, but it's capacity was not enough for me. So I bought
myself a Philips DVD writer (DVDR1628 Internal DVD ReWriter, YASTs sees
it as a DVDR1648P1) to burn DVD's under Linux. After changing the
hardware in my computer, I started my (Suse 9.2) Linux system. I added
the hardware in Yast (--> Hardware --> CD-Rom Drives, select the
appropriate line and press the Add button, followed by the Finish
button). By the way, before I changed the hardware I manually removed
the old burners software using Yast2.

To burn my first DVD, I started K3b To check whether the new hardware
was available under K3b I choose Project --> Properties. Under the first
tab page, the drop down box for the Burning Device has no contents.

When I want to burn a DVD anyway I get the message "No Writer Available"
and "K3b did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to create
an image".

Who knows what I need to do to make my new burner known in K3b

Mac

MacAdam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> <SNIP>
>
> Who knows what I need to do to make my new burner known in K3b
>
> Mac
Update: I tried to burn the DVD as root, and succeeded. So the question
now is how I can burn DVDs as user.

FWIW, some information:
cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda9 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1D
<SNIP>
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs
fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder/media/dvdrecorder subfs
fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0

MacAdam adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> MacAdam wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> Who knows what I need to do to make my new burner known in K3b
>>
>> Mac
> Update: I tried to burn the DVD as root, and succeeded. So the
> question now is how I can burn DVDs as user.
>
> FWIW, some information:
> cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda9 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1
> 1D <SNIP>
> /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs
> fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
> /dev/dvdrecorder/media/dvdrecorder subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0

i don`t think this is a hardware prob as such ( as you can burn as
root ), have you used the k3b settings to scan for the hardware?

Depending on your k3b version it should be in the menus under
Settings>K3b Setup ( this is on 10 with k3b 0.12.8 )

It probably will need to re-configure the burning permissions on
cdrecord and cdrdao.

HTH
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

baskitcaise wrote:
> MacAdam adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>
>>MacAdam wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>><SNIP>
>
>
> i don`t think this is a hardware prob as such ( as you can burn as
> root ), have you used the k3b settings to scan for the hardware?
>
> Depending on your k3b version it should be in the menus under
> Settings>K3b Setup ( this is on 10 with k3b 0.12.8 )
>
> It probably will need to re-configure the burning permissions on
> cdrecord and cdrdao.
>
> HTH

Baskitcaise

Thanks for your reply. I do think it is a question of the permissions.
Might you know how I can change these?

Mac