Hi I am trying to download a cd burning program for Slackware 9.1 for a Dell Inspiron 1100 using a 2.6.6 kernel.
Any suggestions?
Also how do you install a sfx file?

Slack comes with mkisofs, dvd-rw-tools and cdrtools ...

Are you looking for a graphical frontend?


Cheers,
Tink

Yeah I am looking for a GUI unless you could give me a crash course on how to use those tools or could directly me to such a place.
Thanks,
Chris

http://www.k3b.org/
Lovely program.

Well, you could install k3b or xcdroast ...

As for th e crash-course: both the man-pages
for mkisofs and cdrecord have plenty of examples
along with concise usage information.



Cheers,
Tink

Doesn't support RSCSI, very sad ...


Cheers,
Tink

So I just downloaded K3b and I got this message

cdrdao 1.1.7 does not support ATAPI
The configured version of cdrdao does not support writing to ATAPI devices without SCSI emulation and there is at least one writer in your system not configured to use SCSI emulation.
Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems. Or you install (or select as the default) a more recent version of cdrdao.
No support for ATAPI with cdrdao
You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao.
Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all devices. This way you won't have any problems.

What should I do and how do I enable ide-scsi without messing up being able to use my cdrom to play movies, audio CDs and data CDs? I used Fedora Core 1.0 for a little while but when I tried to get my cd burning program to work I was unable to read data CDs anymore.
Thanks,
Chris

Just use cdrecord instead :}



Cheers,
Tink

I got it to work even with that message. However, I now can not get my audio CDs to play. It is telling me that I have a badblock. I think that my computer is trying to mount the audio CDs. My DVD is not working now. Any idea?
Here is what XINE is telling me...

The souce can't be read.
Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: not disc in drive). (/dev/cdrom)
-xine engine error-
Input plugin failed to open mrl 'dvd'

Here is what I am getting when I try to play an audio CD

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems

PS-I know I am not suppose to mount an audio CD.

Here's what I do. It's command-line (the GUIs never worked), but it works:
cdrecord -v -data dev=0,0,0 myiso.iso
Replace that 0,0,0 with the number you get from
cdrecord -scanbus

No go on that...here is what I got.

root@CUT:~# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

does anyone know how I can get my music CDs and DVDs to play again? I find setting up my cd burner as the biggest pain in the a"" with Linux. It always messes up audio CDs and DVDs.

also, under 2.6 kernel:

su
[password]
mv /dev/sg* /root ## <- incase you want to put them back! ##
ln -s /dev/hda /dev/sg0
ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/sg1
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/sg2
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/sg3
cdrecord -scanbus

et voila!

edit: oops! make that sg*!!

this will cure your problem cddesjar, no sg_mod is needed so this fools cdrecord into looking at the actual drives.

What is that supposed to do? Does someone know if there is a way that I can play my audio CDs and DVDs, and burn CDs?
Thanks,
chris

see above ^