Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root

[Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com>]

Thanks

Compiling 2.6.9 now. Hope that fixes it.

Ben

On Friday 17 December 2004 01:35 pm, you wrote:
> If you are running a 2.6.8+ kernel, you can only burn cds as root.
>
> Robert
>
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:59, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I installed k3b to burn CD's but only able to do so while I am root.
> >
> > I did all things possible (I think) to make burning for user available. I
> > installed cdrecord with SUID enabled, and also I updated the permissions
> > so that my username is in the "burning" group and also in the "cdrom"
> > group. When I go Settings -> Configure k3b: I can see under Devices, that
> > my burner is there, but as a reader and not as a writer. The weird thing
> > is that even though it is a reader, in the specifications, it says CD-RW
> > = yes
> >
> > Here is the output of the following command, first with user, then with
> > root:
> >
> > With User:
> >
> > ben@dell700m:~$ cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus
> > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�g
> > Schilling
> > NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
> > cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original
> > version. Please send bug reports and support requests to
> > <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
> >       The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
> > version.
> >
> > scsidev: 'ATAPI:'
> > devname: 'ATAPI'
> > scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1
> > Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
> > Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be
> > unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are
> > slow.
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> > scsibus0:
> >         0,0,0     0) 'SONY    ' 'CDRW/DVD CRX830E' 'KDK3' 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) *
> >
> > With Root:
> >
> > dell700m:/home/ben# cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus
> > Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J�g
> > Schilling
> > NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of
> > cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original
> > version. Please send bug reports and support requests to
> > <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
> >       The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
> > version.
> >
> > scsidev: 'ATAPI:'
> > devname: 'ATAPI'
> > scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1
> > Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
> > Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be
> > unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are
> > slow.
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> > scsibus0:
> >         0,0,0     0) 'SONY    ' 'CDRW/DVD CRX830E' 'KDK3' 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) *
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben