On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:03:53 -0600, Ron wrote: > Hi all, > > Some time back, just before I upgraded to 2006, I put an old > TV card I had lying around in my Mandriva machine. My > motherboard only has one analog audio input port, so I > unplugged the audio cable from my DVD burner. I never watch > movies on my PC (and don't know if the audio cable is needed > for this anyway), and music CDs play fine without it.
Audio cable is absolutely not required. I wonder, though, if the presence of the TV card in your computer is having some deleterious effect? I might try removing the TV card to see if it makes any difference. > Around the same time, the burning of DVDs stopped working. > Specifically, k3b reports success, but movie DVDs I burn will > not play back, and on data DVDs I can only read the first > 280MB or so of data, then nothing but I/O errors. CD burning, > on the other hand, works just fine for both audio and data CDs. After a successful burn, have you tried reading the discs in a drive _other_ than the one in which they were burned? > I tried two different brands of disks, one DVD-R and one > DVD+R, same result. I tried limiting the speed to 2x, same > result. I haven't seen anything on the list about k3b DVD > burning being totally broken in 2006. It's not--I do it routinely. Miark ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
