ok ive been having trouble getting k3b to burn stuff and i just ran cdrecord -scanbus and got this:
cdrecord: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface changes.
cdrecord: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root programs.
cdrecord: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root account.

has anyone else ran into this with a solution other than runing k3b as root.

don't use scsi emulation with 2.6.x, you don't need it.

use the ide modules.

ok so how woul di do that

also do you know why k3b says i dont have random programs when i do. before it was saying i didnt have dvd+rw-format when i did now it says i dont have growiso but only when i run k3b as root.

edit lilo or grub and remove scsi

then your fstab should look like this

/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0

It says you don't have the programs when you run as root because root's path and a normal user's path are different. root rarely has the /usr/bin etc. directories listed to avoid attackers spoofing a program in /sbin (I believe this is the reason). It is also unusual to run those sort of programs as root.

Just ignore the cdrecord message since the developer is known to have issues with the kernel maintainers for this alteration of the kernel.

Is this a kernel you have configured and built yourself? You will need to remove the scsi emulation stuff for your driver as previously noted.

Hope that helps

Alex

ok that answers most of my questions but when i run it as user it says it doesnt see dvd+rw-format which i do which is in the /usr/bin directory and it only does this on certain versions.