Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > Le Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:28:52 +0100 Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a écrit : > > > Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > > Hi my dear LFS users friends. > > > > > > What are the stages to enable a ND-3500AG NEC DVD writer ? > > > > > > \bye > > > > > > > Stage 1: READ! > > Ah... yes, thank you for the advice. I've been reading for about a > week now, searching intensively the net, books, magazines... > Maybe I could restate my question : do you now ANY link putting all > this together ? Switching google's advanced search from "Anywhere in the page" to "In the title of the page" you get links from
http://www.dvd-recordable.org/ http://www.dvdr-digest.com/ http://comparedvdsoftwareburn4free.com/ I should explain I work in Electronics, and have been continually frustrated by others finding things I cannot. Often it's stupoid things like pages that say they're in French when they actually are English, and I specifying "English" as the language. Sometimes you just have to use the tools properly. > > To complete my question, because I can see you quite dislike those > lazy short messages : > > 1) devices : when you compile ide-scsi module on a brand new 2.6 > kernel, you are beeing mocked at because this is old fashion, ide-cd > being much more "modern". But when you read the cdrecord, dvd+rx+tools > and other help pages, it is said that this is not so good, especially > from the performances point of view. And there is the udev settings > problem, of course... See what I mean ? The biggest hitch with ide-scsi is /etc/fstab, IIRC. You have to select it as ide-scsi, enable writing, and have udf(?), ide-scsi, generic scsi, and probably more available to the kernel. > > 2) I tried Xcdroast, but it needs a special (and non free) cdrecord > version to burn DVDs... no good. > > 3) I tried K3b... and was stuck by foolish things like k3bsetup not > finding "su" in my path. I ran it from root, but was unable to get a > real burning operation. Everything works fine unitl it tries to burn, > and then there is a seeking error... (all this in ide-scsi mode). This you can probably fix. A lot of things reduce the path to "/bin:/usr/bin;" I have also seen "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin;"No doubt it's a security ploy but actually ends up being a pain in certain circumstances. Try this grep PATH /etc/* |less grep PATH ~/* <as your cdwriting user> grep PATH ~/.* BTW, I have 'su' in /bin. Where is yours? You will probably need the 'less' bit. I would advise against using the -r option on grep for /etc! You are nearly there with this one. Turn up debugging and check your logs. Another thing to beware of is that if something wants to be a user, and you run it as root, it may well fall back to being 'nobody' the most useless of lusers. Read the small print with this package. > > 4) I tried to compile the gnome dvd-burning project, but got bored by > all the dependencies :-( Gnome appears to be dependancy Hell. > > 5) Of course, I started with some console tries, but this got me > nowhere : Doesn't mkisofs do it? One thing you can do, btw, is make up your iso as a block file and then mount it to check it. > > > Then you can fill in the remaining stages yourself. Grep the blfs > > book > > > > grep -ir dvd * > > Yes, I did something like this. I'm not COMPLETLY stupid, you know > (QUITE, but not COMPLETLY) ;-) Thank you for restoring our confidence in your hard work and diligence. > > > www.google.ie/linux & search term dvd writing > > Well, this is the good news from your message : I didn't know this > special section from Google. So your insults were justified, after all > :-) I saw a few more links that I will consult, and then I'll annoy > you a little more, I guess ;-) > I haven't sorted this myself, you know. I mean to buy a cd or dvd writer but it just never happened. The last one was robbed and returned _with_5V_applied_ blowing it and a Southbridge :-O. Kids....grrr. -- With best Regards, Declan Moriarty. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
