Ok folks. I have just edited the lilo.conf file, re-run lilo and rebooted. Now I ran cdrecord -scanbus and it returned:
suseorbust:~ # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a05 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W8432T' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
suseorbust:~ #


So far so good, right? NO.
a.) Burning an Audio CD. Every Time I attempt to burn an Audio CD (from WAV files) it dies on me with an unfreindly dialog box as such:

Error
Audio CD:
An error is occured!
Exit Status: 255
[OK]

b.) Burning a data CD: The only way to get KOnCD to burn a data CD is to actually tell it NOT to use an image file, and burn on the fly. After doing that, it SEEMS to burn to the disc, but never closes it since I cannot mount the disc. (No medium found). Here is the log when it was burning a simple 190MB data CD:

NOTE: KONCD Does generate log files. I cannot post them here as they are too long and on't fit. I am using Memorex 700MB (80 Min) CD-Rs. The ONLY kind (apart form TDK_ I know for a fact works fine with this burner.
IMPORTANT NOTE: It will ONLY let me attempt to burn an Audio CD with Padding turned on. If I don't have it turned on it won't even attempt to burn an audio CD

Can anyone help me decipher through this mess pleasE?

Dump KonCD,use something more robust, eroaster, gcombust, gtoaster. For burning ISO's I'd suggest x-cdroast.

I just got KOnCD to burn an audio CD succesfully. I have no idea how the fudge it worked this time. Anyways, I'll try x-cdroast as I heard that name before and maybe its better than KOnCD. I'm still open to suggestions, everyone :)

i've got some problems with modprobe ide-scsi. error message is:
/lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/ide-scsi.o.gz: unresolved symbol scsi_unregister_module
/lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/ide-scsi.o.gz: unresolved symbol scsi_register
/lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/ide-scsi.o.gz: unresolved symbol scsi_register_module

i dunno how to correct this. any tips?

Do you have loadable module support in you kernel? The second thing kernel might be compiled without scsi support.

Hi Folks. I can burn Audio CDs perfectly, but with Data CDs it gives me an error code 255 and quits. Any ideas? I would include the log here but It wouldn't fit as its like 3000 characters or more...

try to reduce speed, also I have no clue what error 255 is (honestly I've had no faulty CD since I switch to linux!!!) can you give just a couple of first lines from log.

OK, I will upload a few lines of the log next time I try the burn :)

i have loadable kernel support in my kernel.
i recompiled my kernel to include scsi support.
i'm trying to use eroaster... but it's not working.

I use XCDRoaster and so far it works great for Data CDs. I haven't had much (if any) success with audio CDs though :)

if you're trying to burn mp3, x-cdroast doesn't support that yet. convert the mp3 files into wav files, then burn it to your cd.

LOL, I tried both Mp3s and WAvs. Sometimes it doesn't "Recognize" the WAV fil;es that are set up in its imgaes directory. sometimes it works, sometimes It doesn't. I'll give it a couple of point releases and hopefully they would have fixed such bugs :)

yea... i guess that's the way it is... ;)
it seems to me that eroaster has a more more user-friendly GUI though...

Hmm, this is interesting. It will not let me launch XCDroast as a normal user! This is what it tells me. Note that I tried what it suggested below but still no dice.


Important Note I have run the XCDRoast setup program as user and added the user "samer" to the list of people granted access to use the program, but STILL no use! :(