K3b permissions issues.

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue May 9 14:59:11 UTC 2006


Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> But what really gets me is that it worked perfectly with NO configuration
> for about 3 days, then I started getting these problems and I don't even
> recall upgrading any packages.
> 
> I actually took my laptop in to the shop and connected the drive to it and
> burnt a CD to test if it would work with Linux, and it worked beautifully.
> Even easier than with Windows since I would have had to use a driver CD.
> So I bought the device. Had I encountered all these permissions problems I
> wouldn't have been able to spend 3 days researching a solution and would
> have assumed it to be too much trouble to work in Linux and no bought it.
> 
> What would make it change? If I remember correctly I just ran K3b setup,
> and clicked OK, then burned the disc.

iirc, this is a DVD writing problem - it doesn't happen with CDs (though
it's a long time since I fixed the /dev/sg0 permissions on my own machine,
so I might be misremembering).  Are you sure you could write both?  Or was
it only CDs?
-- 
derek





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