On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> I justed to update people on the list about what I've discovered about my
> problems with running cdrecord on my new Linux box. At first, I had no
> problems, then I was unable to erase re-writable cds or complete the
> process of writing to recordable cds. I looked through all the newsgroups
> and talked to the VA Linux folks. I even emailed the author of cdrecord
> who said the log files showed nothing really wrong on cdrecord's end. He
> suspected a Linux kernel problem.
>
> Turns out it was Gnome! I had been running cdrecord from the command line
> inside Gnome. Last night, as a lark, I thought I would quit out of Gnome
> and run tests without X. Everything worked great. And I think the reason
> things initially worked well was because I was running inside KDE, but
> then switched desktops to Gnome.
>
> Why on earth would running inside Gnome cause problems like that, spewing
> out error messages and scsi card timeout errors in my /var/log/message
> file? I would love to hear what people think.
>
Have you tried XCDRoast? That's what I use. It's a nice GUI cd
recording util that's DESIGNED to run cdrecord from within X, no
matter what desktop environment you use.
John
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