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



Benedek Frank wrote:

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


Well, sort of.  See here...

http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/news2


>
>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



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