K3B??

[blahblahblah]

how do i set up k3b properly?
i have used k3b setup but it still doesnt recognize my cd drive when i try to burn something.
if you can post step by step how to set this up it would be greatly appreciated.

[rickenbacherus]

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2107#9965

Post your /etc/fstab if you can't get it working and the output of cdrecord -scanbus

[blahblahblah]

still cant get it working. heres what you asked for.

cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.01a16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' '1A16' 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) *

*notice it doesnt say anything about my drive being an RW drive...

etc/fstab

/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda3 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /home/Drew/windows vfat user,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

[rickenbacherus]

Do this:

ls -al /dev/cdrom

Should return something like so:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 21 17:05 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

If so then k3b probably just isn't quite tweaked correctly. Sorry but I don't use GUI's for cd burning so I'm not going to be alot of help beyond here. If you have an .iso on your drive already you can find out if your burner is going to work with linux like so:

cdrecord -v -dummy speed=4 dev=0,0,0 filename.iso

That will carry out the write process but the laser won't be turned on.