My laptop have DVD±RW-drive. It have never been any problem using it in OpenSUSE as a CD/DVD-writer.
Now in OS11.1 K3B says it could not find any optical writer.
In HW-information my drive is listed as:
TSSTcorp DVD±RW TS-L632H (/dev/sr0)
So why doesnt K3B agree to this?
I run KDE4.1
this happened for me on an upgrade from 11 to 11.1, but not on a fresh install of 11.1
what i did was to add user to “disk” and “cd-rom” groups in Yast - security and users - user and group management, edit user, and add these to user.
I had the same problem, I could solve it by a simple reinstall of k3b. 
Thanks!
It work, but only after a reboot.
The same problem was with sound that i always had to manual start sound by entering the sound-setup in Yast.
After adding “audio” group to user, then it start automatic.
Why is this not set as default? This is the smallest problem that could be fixed before final release.
RS
Sure? Here that helped once. Upon a restart of k3b the writer was gone again. Check Biome’s solution, if that’s the case.
Uwe
Hey, you’re right, the reinstall solution works only once.
Interesting: In the setup the writer is recognized, even with refresh, but as you put a disc in and open the burn dialogue, it disappears…
Interesting II: In the group user settings “audio” is not enabled, nevertheless I don’t have sound problems.
I used to have the same problem until I added myself into the CDROM user group.
So now it detects my DVD-RW but it can’t write to disk. I get an error.
“Could not open for writing.”
Kirilo wrote:
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> I had the same problem, I could solve it by a simple reinstall of k3b.
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With the x86_64 version, that also failed. I even uninstalled k3b, removed
all traces of k3b then reinstalled - still won’t recognize the drive.
adding user to the disk group doesn’t sound like a very good security
practice to me - I have a bunch of Linux-illiterate users who don’t need
direct disk access!
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Will Honea
This problem only exists for kde4-K3B.
Will Honea wrote:
> Kirilo wrote:
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>> I had the same problem, I could solve it by a simple reinstall of k3b.
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> With the x86_64 version, that also failed. I even uninstalled k3b,
> removed all traces of k3b then reinstalled - still won’t recognize the
> drive.
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> adding user to the disk group doesn’t sound like a very good security
> practice to me - I have a bunch of Linux-illiterate users who don’t need
> direct disk access!
Addendum: Went 32-bit box and it recognized the device - until I inserted a
CDRW disk. After that, k3b insisted that there was no usable device.
Brassero gave the same result so it looks likes something deeper than the
app is wrong ;(
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Will Honea
I had same problems.
After reading some threads in this forum i tried this:
first tried to add my user to cdrom group then i could see my dvd devices until i inserted a disc.
Then added my user to the disk group, then it seems to work fine.
But i’m not sure what security implications the solution might have.
This is a permissions issue. Check in /dev to what group the primary cd/dvd devices belong to and what permissions they have.
Add your user to that group (usually “disk”, in 11.0 group “cdrom” is unused if you only have DVDs, I think).
Then as root, change the device’s group permissions to allow writing.
If you want to differentiate this for other users you can tweak the group/permissions accordingly.
Note: what I call a primary device is the actual block device, usually /dev/sr0 if you have one sata DVD-RW. Devices /dev/dvd, /dev/dvdrw, /dev/cdrom, etc. are just links to the primary block device, there’s no need to adjust them as they inherit their permissions.
This solution works for me. I added the user to the group ’ disk’ and after a reboot K3B writes again.
After adding my user to these groups k3b is able to find my DVD-RW, …but I can’t use it for writing and my Device menu is also empty.
K3b didn’t find libmad. I’m already added the /usr/lib/ directory to the search patch, but it’s removed when I restart K3b.
Bug report is at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408252 so follow that to see what the fix is.
mmm … no … it seems to exist with alot of applications, Brasero Disc burner, Dragon Player dvdrip, etc. My DVD worked after the initial installation of 11.1 (lenovo T61 laptop), now I cannot access the drive at all.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
There is a blog article here with some suggestions:
Solved : K3b Problem with Normal User on openSUSE 11.1 | Spirit of Change
I was also ‘bitten’ by this, but adding a regular user to group “cdrom” and “disk” worked for me. I also ran k3b once from a konsole with root permissins (kdesu k3b) to check out the permissions.
I recall this worked in 11.1 Beta 5 and also in 11.1 RC1. So I think this was bad luck, in that some last minute rushed fix after 11.1 RC1 to address some other high priority item caused this to happen. Its unfortunate. But I believe it will be addressed after the SuSE-GmbH staff come back from Christmas break. In the mean time, there are workarounds that work for many of us (examine the many suggestions in the blog article).