CD Burner issue

Enfield · 20 Apr 2008 at 16:42

Hi,

Am having problems with my CD burner in Archlinux.

Now it's a Phillips DVD RW + CD-RW into one and I can play stuff through it, but opening K3b tells me that I cannot burn anything because it hasn't detected a burner!

Here is my fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/cdrw0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0

The cdrw0 line I created myself and I made the directory for it too in /mnt but that still hasn't worked.

Any ideas?

brummie · 20 Apr 2008 at 17:58

I cant help you TBH but mine says....

/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=63c7a295-45f4-430d-bc2a-9ab195daa77a /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=0652c7db-bba9-46a4-a167-1b8153f488f9 /home           ext3    relatime        0       2
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

.walls · 20 Apr 2008 at 19:52

Do you have dvd+rw-tools installed?
Also - are you a member of the "optical" group?

Enfield · 20 Apr 2008 at 20:23

.walls said:
Do you have dvd+rw-tools installed?
Also - are you a member of the "optical" group?

No and no, but I am now.

Thanks, will try that and reboot in a minute.

Enfield · 20 Apr 2008 at 20:56

Has worked a treat, currently burning a CD - cheers.

However, when I rebooted my mouse didn't not work. Has done this before and the only way to get it working again is to power down, turn off at the PSU and wait a minute.

I have to do this so my BIOS and can that I have a mouse connected, (it's funny like that), so then I booted up and I am getting a load of call trace messages and it won't boot!

One thing that stood out was a message saying something like, ooops: SMP error.

Any ideas?

Think my computer is probably near to its death tbh.

EDIT: Yep, definitely doesn't like the USB mosue anymore! Am having to use an old serial one which I've not used for about 5 years lol

.walls · 22 Apr 2008 at 14:21

Check your BIOS USB options (e.g. legacy mouse support). I've had problems with that before.

Enfield · 22 Apr 2008 at 22:31

Been getting it again today several times even with the normal serial mouse.

I'll try turning off the legacy option.