linux can detect my cdrw drive AOpen Cdwriter 48x12x50x. it is mounted at /mnt/cdrom1. how do i configure k3b to detect this.

do you have ide-scsi emulation enabled for this device, this page http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/IDE_CD_Writer gives details

whats that ide-scsi emulation thing? I'm using Redhat Linux 9 kernel 2.4.20-8. shouldnt redhat automatically detect and configure the device for me? my cd-writer appeared in the cdrecord -scanbus command. the output was:

[root@localhost root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-20
02 J?rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport c
ode version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH
'@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J
. Schilling').
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'AOPEN ' 'CD-RW CRW4850 ' '1.
04' 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) *

what does k3b say, and do u have the latest k3b ??

K3B will detect the cdrw automatically, or at least it should.If don't, run k3bsetup (or similar)

One would hope so, but maybe not.

A CD-ROM device is read-only under the 2.4 series kernels, unless you use SCSI emulation to enable the drive to be written to as well.

This is a kernel option, and also the module must be loaded in the bootloader configuration in order for a specific CD-ROM drive to be recognized as writeable. This means that, as noted in the wiki linked above, your lilo.conf or grub.conf (or menu.lst) must contain hd*=ide-scsi, where "*" is the device designation of your CD-ROM drive (most drives are connected as the master device on the secondary IDE channel, therefore "hdc", but if yours is the slave device on the secondary IDE channel, it would be "hdd").

I know the wiki says that this is not strictly necessary for the 2.4 series kernels, but it is often necessary to load this module for the benefit of the programs that are looking for it (cdrecord, cdrdao, and the front ends using these backends-- like k3b).

So I would check lsmod to see if the ide-scsi module was loaded. However, since cdrecord does see the device, there's a fair chance that the problem is in K3b itself.

So, again, which version of K3b is this, and have you run K3b setup?

i had downloaded k3b before and i reformatted my hard drive due to a network problem. i have the latest k3b version for RH9 i386. my problem now are these package dependencies:

flac is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
id3lib is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libFLAC++.so.2 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libFLAC.so.4 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libid3-3.8.so.3 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libmad is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libmad.so.0 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libsamplerate.so.0 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libsamplerate.so.0(libsamplerate.so.0.0) is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb

is there one complete package that has this things?

ok i ran lsmod and this was the output:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3484 0 (autoclean)
udf 91712 0 (autoclean)
ppp_deflate 4312 0 (autoclean)
zlib_deflate 20984 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
ppp_async 9056 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 23740 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate ppp_async]
slhc 6580 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
soundcore 6116 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 17508 1 (autoclean)
lp 8580 0 (autoclean)
parport 33952 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12148 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sg 34572 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16824 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 11120 0
scsi_mod 102616 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33436 0
cdrom 31040 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev 2720 0 (unused)
mousedev 5204 1
hid 20772 0 (unused)
input 5632 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 73088 1 [hid usb-uhci]
ext3 64704 2
jbd 47828 2 [ext3]

OK, so ide-scsi is there; that's fine.

Doesn't RH have any kind of dependency resolution? Or are you not using apt or yum or synaptic to install software?

In any case, it only looks like maybe 5 packages:

flac
libflac
id3lib
libmad
libsamplerate

(all of the *.so.* files are the actual libraries installed by the lib* packages). If you were using some package installation system that had dependency resolution, they would have been installed automatically if K3b needed them. But you can always download and install them manually if you like.

None of these seem to relate to the original problem though, unless K3b is actually broken due to failed dependencies (which it does not seem to be if it runs).

.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I personally am not going hunting through RH repositories to find out what is "the latest k3b version for RH9". piggysmile, could you just type k3b --version in a terminal and tell us what the version number is?

And also, tell us the results of trying to run k3bsetup?

i donwloaded the rpm package nd installed it through the rpm -Uvh command.

Output:
[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb.rh9.i386.rpm
warning: k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb.rh9.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 87e600b8
error: Failed dependencies:
flac is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
id3lib is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libFLAC++.so.2 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libFLAC.so.4 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libid3-3.8.so.3 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libmad is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libmad.so.0 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libsamplerate.so.0 is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb
libsamplerate.so.0(libsamplerate.so.0.0) is needed by k3b-0.11.10-1.xcyb

The rpm commanhd does not have dependency resolution. Meaning, all dependent programs/libraries must be pre-installed or installed in the same command as the program you're trying to install.

Use apt or yum or synaptic to automatically install dependencies... apt and the front-ends mentioned are available for RH. If you don't know how to install them, check out http://freshrpms.net/apt/ .