Hi all,
I had the distro operating as installed but after trying to get the video players to play dvd's somehow i lost the cdrom icon from my devices icon on the kde desktop..I created a device shortcut on my desktop..I was unable to create the cdrom device back into my device file on the desktop..Not sure why? my new shortcut will play cd/dvds and I finally got my drake config to install and uninstall from my free dvd disk..The last hurtle is to get the burner software to work..
Each time I try to burn a cd or dvd either k3b(my favorite that worked B4 my mess-up) or X-cd roast I get an error..It seems to not be able to get the buffer working but I really do not understand why..
I have uninstalled cdrecord-k3b and then reinstalled them but it's the same thing..
Can anyone help here? Please let me know what information you need to
help diagnose the problem..
I just got the whole distro working the way I like it and would not want to reinstall the entire system if I can help it..
Thank You,
jolphil

So whats the exact error you are getting?

Hi redazz,
from k3b I get this (taken from part of the error message)..
Makes no sense to me at all..

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cdrecord
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/usr/bin/cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
/usr/bin/cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
SCSI buffer size: 64512
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to warly at mandriva.com.

Thanks for responding..
jolphil

Try doing as root
After that try to burn a disc and see if that solves the problem.

redazz,
When I opened k3b this error poped up..
what to do?

cdrecord will be run with root privileges on kernel >= 2.6.8
Since Linux kernel 2.6.8 cdrecord will not work when run suid root for security reasons anymore.
Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem.

jolphil
Edit: I have to go away for a few days but will return asap

It seems like cdrecord won't run it setuid mode so you will need to undo my suggestion above by doing
Run k3bsetup and hopefully it will fix your problems. If not, maybe upgrade your version of cdrecord or k3b.