[sclug] kubuntu probs/questions

[John Stumbles]

Will Dickson wrote:
> John Stumbles wrote:

---8<--- snip other helpful stuff, think I've got that sorted now as per 
my other msg, thanx

>> Second is probably a basic Debian/[k]ubuntu Q: how do I configure the 
>> system for changes to hardware? I've replaced a DVD drive with a 
>> DVD-RW but get errors* trying to write anything with it (with k3b). 
>> The live-CD can write on the drive so I assume it's something kubunto 
>> 'knows' how to do if I could ask it nicely.
>>
>> * e.g. to a CD-R when k3b tries 'Optimum Power Calibration' it thinks 
>> about it for a long time and then suggests that the drive didn't like 
>> the media - for whatever clean blank writeable disc is in it.
> 
> 
> It's possible that K3B has worked out that you now have a DVD burner and
> is attempting to use the DVD backend, rather than the CD back-end (which 
> won't work if you're trying to write a CD). (BTW, did you mean DVD-RW, 
> not DVD+RW or DVD+/-RW - it matters.

It's a Pioneer 107 -- DVD+/-RW

> I'd start by trying mkisofs / cdrecord directly (I've never had any luck 
> with K3B personally, although it's been a while since I've tried). If 
> that works, you probably need to reconfigure K3B itself - K3B has some 
> kind of hardware setup dialog, doesn't it?

Havn't tried mkisofs or cdrecord, but since nothing's showing up on the 
system at /dev/hdd (where the Pioneer drive is connected) I guess it's a 
lower-level problem than k3b itself. I'd have put it down to a hardware 
fault or system configuration problem, except that the kubuntu live cd 
finds the drive and writes to it OK!

Maybe it still is hardware related, just wondered if there's something I 
should be doing. I tried
	sudo discover --enable=ide --device
but this prints nothing, and /dev/ still contains only:
ls -la /dev/hd*
brw-rw----  1 root disk   3, 0 2005-06-26 20:52 /dev/hda
brw-rw----  1 root disk   3, 1 2005-06-26 20:52 /dev/hda1
brw-rw----  1 root disk   3, 2 2005-06-26 20:52 /dev/hda2
brw-rw----  1 root disk   3, 5 2005-06-26 20:52 /dev/hda5
brw-rw----  1 root disk   3, 6 2005-06-26 20:52 /dev/hda6
brw-rw----  1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-06-26 20:52 /dev/hdc

(hdc is my existing plextor cdrw)

-- 
John Stumbles