no k3b writers

thebiggiantmouse · 04-20-2007, 10:13 PM

i am currently running slackware 10.2. i recently downloaded and installed k3b 1.0. During the setup it detected both of my drives. It however only listed them as readers. i have two dvdrws. for some reason it did not detect their capability. can anyone help

willysr · 04-20-2007, 11:12 PM

have you run k3bsetup yet?

thebiggiantmouse · 04-21-2007, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

have you run k3bsetup yet?

yes that was where I saw the problem

simcox1 · 04-21-2007, 09:47 AM

I don't know if it's worth trying the slackware current package.

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/...slackware/kde/

K3b has recently been moved out of extra into kde/ due to a change in k3b. Here's the quote from the changelog.

kde/k3b-1.0.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to k3b-1.0.1. Moved into main tree now
that k3b is no longer trying to make cdrecord setuid root. :-)

Whether that would help I'm not sure. Otherwise, if you're using a 2.4 kernel, have you got the 'append=scsi' line in lilo.conf?

thebiggiantmouse · 04-21-2007, 11:17 AM

i tried installing the slackware current package. however since the first install of k3b was built from the source I dont think it will install properly. how would i append lilo.conf?

H_TeXMeX_H · 04-21-2007, 11:40 AM

Please don't use -current packages if you're not running -current, they most likely will not work, and probably give you a headache in the meantime.

simcox1 · 04-21-2007, 12:16 PM

With a 2.4 kernel, I think you need to add a line to /etc/lilo.conf. You can add it somewhere near the top. It might already be there.

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

I think that's right. That is if your dvdrw is on hdc.

simcox1 · 04-21-2007, 12:17 PM

And don't forget to run 'lilo' afterwards.

willysr · 04-21-2007, 10:37 PM

k3b in -current will link to the new KDE's path, which is now in /usr, not in /opt/kde again
perhaps you should grab the source and rebuild it using the Slackbuilds in the source directory rather than using the package in -Current