Re: Re: K3b cannot see DVD Burner

You know, I found it. it is in gentoolkit. Thank you, Oh Lord, for the
bounty of Google.

Ben Ricker


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:30:19 -0600, Flaffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did have k3b running under KDE in the previous incarnation of my
> desktop. I needed to repartition so I wiped it and went with Xfce4,
> since its footprint is much lighter. I was running the same kernel
> version: 2.6.9.
> 
> Strange, though: I do not have qpkg or equery on my box. What pkg are
> they a part of? I found a "quickpkg" in the Gentoo handbook, but that
> was for something else.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> Ben Ricker
> 
> 
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:57:52 -0500, Carl Hudkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Flaffer wrote:
> >
> > > I installed K3b and I cannot get it to see my DVD-RW. I know there is
> > > a k3bsetup program, but I cannot find it in gentoo. Anyone get K3b
> > > running without making themselves a superuser?
> >
> >  with recent kernels >= 2.6.8 (according to k3b web page), cdrecord won't
> > even *run* if set suid root, so being super-user should definitely not be
> > needed.  :)  Also, 2.6.8 seems to have some sort of bug that clobbers
> > dvd+rw-tools (and therefore k3b), so if you're running that kernel you
> > might need to up-/down-grade.  Check www.k3b.org for details on this.
> >
> >  As for k3bsetup, I'm pretty sure you can get to it via the Settings menu in
> > k3b itself.  My PC is down for maintenance right now, but assuming "which
> > k3bsetup" doesn't find you anything, and since you seem to be saying you
> > installed it from a separate package, I'd try one of these:
> >
> > qpkg -l k3b | grep [Ss]etup
> > equery files k3b | grep [Ss]etup
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
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