031128 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a couple of days ago, i got CD-writing working satisfactorily, > having emerged xcdroast-0.98_alpha13 , stable for X86 . > today, having done nothing special meanwhile except get sensors working, > Xcdroast is very slow to start -- 1 m 30 s -- both as user & as root; > it's a real puzzle, as there's no CPU activity showing & this box is fast. > i had this problem on an earlier machine (Mandrake 9.0) > & have forgotten the explanation & whether/how far it got fixed. > generally, Xcdroast is a good enough front-end to Cdrecord etc > & before i try eg K3b as an alternative, can anyone suggest a solution ?
sorry to reply to myself, but a medium-length visit to Forum gave an answer. the problem seems to be that if there's no CD in the drive, a probe is done to determine whether the drive is indeed RW, which takes a very long time. w a CD in the drive, Xcdroast starts at once. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
