Hi all,
I have a plextor(PX-708A) cd/cdrw/dvdrw burner and so far it will read a cdrom but after installing,cdrdao, and cdrecord, and k3b when I open K3b it complains it cannot find an executable for cdrdao and cdrecord..Yet they are both installed..
My question is , does anyone have a working cd/dvd burner and if so how did you do it..
I have tried uninstalling all and reinstalling but that did not help..
Do I need to edit my /etc/fstab or is it a permissions problem? The drive is 660 and both cdrdao and cdrecord are 0750..
Thank you,
jolphil(slowly but surely getting this OS working)Whew!!

Hi,

First I am far from an expert.

Have you tried it as root?

If it works in root, it is probably a permission problem.

I put Deb Sarge on my current machine. DVD burner. I had to add my user name to the group cdrom, if I remember correctly. Other than that it was all automatically done.

Steve

In Kb3 go to setting->Options->Programs and see if cdrdao, and cdrecord are listed there if not click on search and see if Kb3 finds them.

Good news and bad news..
I took your suggestions and ran k3b as root..I gave a different error and said I needed "dvd+r tools'
so I installed that and from root was able to burn a cdrom..
Then I tried from UID and it shows the sam two errors.."Unable to find cdrecord executable" and" unable to find cdrdao executable"... Both are installed so it must be a permission problem(I guess)..
Next thing is how to get K3b working from User..
Thanks for your help...One more step upward..
jolphil

What kernel are you using?

I just had to 'adduser <user> cdrom' to get mine working. If it complains there is no group then 'addgroup cdrom' first. http://debianlinux.net/~jama/howto/c...ing_steps.html

Here is a link that tells how to use k3b setup. I've never done that. Supposed to be very easy though.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=k3b+root+user

Steve

Check your K3b version and kernel.
Kernel 2.6.9 and above needs K3b version 0.11.18 or better
to run as normal user.
Current K3b is 0.11.22.

Thank You for your helpful replies..i am going away for a few days but I will try it as soon as I get back..
Jolphil

Edit..Kernel Linux 2.6.8-1-386
K3b 0.11.20.1

I am using KIIIB on SuSe and it seems to work great.

in case it helps, here are my file permissions:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 8 Feb 17 15:46 /dev/dvdrw -> /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 15 2002 /dev/hdc

my user is a group of the cdrom group

spitfire:~# ls -l /usr/bin/dvd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21340 Aug 30 2004 /usr/bin/dvd+rw-booktype
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19920 Aug 30 2004 /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28196 Aug 30 2004 /usr/bin/dvd+rw-mediainfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 156 Mar 4 20:04 /usr/bin/dvd-burn
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9611 Mar 4 20:04 /usr/bin/dvd-encode
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418 Mar 4 20:04 /usr/bin/dvd-iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24386 Mar 4 20:04 /usr/bin/dvd-menu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11748 Aug 30 2004 /usr/bin/dvd-ram-control
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 160408 Mar 4 20:04 /usr/bin/dvd-slideshow
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105836 Oct 30 01:00 /usr/bin/dvdauthor
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 943 Oct 30 01:00 /usr/bin/dvddirdel
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4346 Dec 22 01:04 /usr/bin/dvdrip
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5001 Dec 22 01:04 /usr/bin/dvdrip-master
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10776 Oct 30 01:00 /usr/bin/dvdunauthor
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7896 Nov 24 10:00 /usr/bin/dvdxchap

spitfire:~# ls -l /usr/bin/cd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1648 Jan 10 03:55 /usr/bin/cdda2mp3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1612 Jan 10 03:55 /usr/bin/cdda2ogg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 267980 Jan 10 03:55 /usr/bin/cdda2wav
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43264 Nov 25 07:00 /usr/bin/cddb-slave2-properties
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13976 Jun 1 2003 /usr/bin/cddbcmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31128 Mar 1 2004 /usr/bin/cdparanoia
-rwxr-x--- 1 root cdrom 566344 Jun 25 2004 /usr/bin/cdrdao
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133 Jan 10 03:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord
-rwxr-x--- 1 root cdrom 348556 Jan 10 03:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 351404 Jan 10 03:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord.shm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 21 17:30 /usr/bin/cdsound-recorder -> sound-recorder
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135208 Feb 7 19:39 /usr/bin/cdxa2mpeg


I'm not sure if it's all correct, but it works!