problems reading home made DVDs

Greetings, Since I got my new dvd burner I have been trying to read home made data dvd (not video) on my laptop an ASUS L2000d. Sometimes everything works fine (mounting them as auto or iso9660), some others I cant even mount the disk, I have to eject the dvd after a while, and the dmesg log goes l

Re: problems reading home made DVDs

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:28:28 +0200, Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40LastFailedSense 0x04 > > hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0

Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:35:47 +0200, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:33:26AM +0200, Juraj Ziegler wrote: [...] > If you have horizontal scrolling enabled (which I guess you have from > your description) then mozilla will go back if you scroll left. > > The way i

how to ask for hardware specs to a vendor

Hi, I own ad asus 716 pda and have been following the linux porting effort for a while. The project is useless so fare since the touchscreen driver is missing so me and some aother in the project would like to lobby asus for the specs, but how? Do you have some sample letter we could modify? Who sh

Decreasing cdrom speed to save battery life

is it useful? I have been trying to save every single electron from my battery, this came to my mind as one of the first ideas. I have a 24x cd drive and se ti to work at half speed (12x) curiosly if I set it to lower speeds such as 10x or 4x it makes some some strange noises, it ticks... I am alre