Graham Murray wrote: >William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, but this is a real pain for the average >>user (gentoo or otherwise). And dont say if you tweak this and tune >>that it will work, thats bunk, of course I do that I do that, and it >>will work, but not for long. Its fixing the whole CD burning mess thats >>needed. >> >> > >Might I be so bold as to ask "what mess?". I have been using Linux for >some years, Gentoo only for about 9 months, and bought my first CD/DVD >burner at Christmas. I just installed it (placed into drive bay, >connected up IDE and power cables), emerged k3b (which pulled in lots >of dependencies) and it 'just worked'. I did not have to 'tweak' any >settings (OK, I did read the USE flag descriptions and set the ones >which looked appropriate before emerging k3b) >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > Likewise, I have never had any problems with linux burning. In fact I had far more problems with Windows (especially ASPI errors and BSODS during CD finalizing ).
With linux it was so easy to burn CDs. Just emerged cdrecord, did a -scanbus to find my CD-RW Drive and burned away. Later on I emerged K3B and found it a very good program for my needs. And likewise had very few errors with it ( the errors were my fault in the first place). I dont really see a mess. For me its quite clean actually. You have a CD-burning program (cdrecord in my case), and you have a GUI frontend for it (in this case K3B). you tell cdrecord where you drive is and it works, it may complain about ATAPI issues but this never impacted my CD-burning. No tweaking or tuning needed. Also while it may need a bit of work to get running, once its setup i will never need to set anything up again until i reinstall linux (i.e. a while ;) ). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
