6.06 with all the updates and I have a graphics viewer called gthumbs that reads and writes cds. Have they removed this program in yoiur version? Joshua Werling <josh.on.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I am pretty new to Linux, had ventured into it a few times before (but only short trips), and decided about one and a half months ago to turn my private computing over to Linux (from WinXP). For several reasons I chose Ubuntu and was impressed with where the project stands when it comes to usability. Unfortunately, somehow my system does not recognize writable CDs as such, it only sees them as CD-ROM. I am using a DELL Dimension 8100, not sure what brand my CD burner is, it shows up in programs such as Sound Juicer as "CD-RW CED-8120B." To make a long story short: I tried to find solutions to this problem (as I had done with graphics issues and some other issues), but I feel this problem is going "too deep" into Linux for me to be able to really understand it, let alone apply the fix(es?) I have stumbled upon. I read it might be connected to HAL not supporting some type of information check on the CD drive or the CD itself by default anymore and that this seems to apply to older drives. One guy offered some sort of HAL patch he had written to get CD burning to work on his system, but I could not really follow him on how to apply it and what exactly those changes would mean (would not want to break my system, you know) ... so I am still w/o CD burning. :-( Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kind regards Joshua -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </blockquote> <hr size=1>Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51733/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ "> Try it now.</a>