Another step before turning to Linux. My DVD/CD burner is not supported by Linux. Can someone suggest a cheap burner that works well in Linux. My travails thru Newegg and other locales has borne no fruit.
View 8 RepliesThis is a rather annoying problem I have with Linux on my laptop. Whenever I install any Linux distro that relies on grub (which is about 99 % apparently) it will mess up my DVD-drive and the drive will not be recognized after booting, no matter the OS (Ubunntu, Arch, Windows Vista or 7). I know the problem has nothing to do the DVD-drive itself, because I bought a new one a few months ago. I am also sure that grub is messing the drive up, because I have tried to use LILO, which worked fine (except for horrible boot times.)
This problem have persisted through about 3-4 years and it is a pretty bad show stopper whenever I want to work with Linux. I had hoped it would get fixed over time, but no one seems to have the exact problem I have. The drive is connected with an IDE connection. Update: The old drive was a Toshiba Samsung SN-S082. I don't know the model number of the new one, but it is HP (I think). Things I have tried to fix it: Mess about with some BIOS settings like enabling AHCI and change some IDE settings. Installing a different boot loader DOES fix the problem but I would like to use grub.
i want to know good cd/dvd burner that support windows also..I want to mean that I can use that cd/dvd for nero also...i want to know a good photo editor/viewer also..i am using opensuse 11.1.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUsed ubuntu a little, few days ago tried booting with puppy linux on usb drive.
I was amazed by its speed, since everything runs in ram, its not comparable with w7. That is the key feature im looking for.
I know, that the most common recommendation here, is to "try out different *nix based OS-es and find the one that suits".
I hope i can rely on other people experience, who have comparable system and silmilar hopes.
What i expect?
-working infrared
-speedstep
-hibernation?!
-support for canon camera
-ACPI (crucial, since t41 has "fan always on" issue)
-quick boot
-constant saving (puppy saves data to memory, which is a problem is power-cut happens)
Im sure puppy can fill out most of these requirements, but still im looking word from you guys.
Ive heard a lot good about algo zenwalk, vector, MijnPup, igelle...
Oh, maybe even tinycore will work...
There are simply so many of them, but i would like to sort out one which has periodical updates and has fulfilled my requirements. Also, Gnome interface would be nice.
I state that, i wont be needing bundled software, because i can get what i want later on and i don't want excess trouble uninstalling software.
I've been using linux for a while (various distros) but somehow they dissapointed me. I know what I'm looking for, a lightweight, fast, minimalist but customizable enough, with no specific graphical environment, bleeding edge distro for a new laptop (used for studying and surfing internet), that hopefully works with my hardware.
I want to have the possibility to compile from source to make my own changes but also to install from binaries easily. I'm not a linux expert, not even an advanced user but I'm willing to learn anything to get my distro running so I'm not looking for a full out of the box distro. It would be great if this distro also had a good community.
Like most long-time Windows users, I am a bit (very!) confused by the manual partitioning of Linux, and particularly the semi-guided partitioning of Ubuntu 10. I first tried Ubuntu way back in version 5, and it was easy to install, I could identify the correct partition by SIZE, not the enigmatic sdb1(0,1,0) nomenclature used in 10.
I set up a 32GB partition, figuring I could install Ubuntu to that, letting it manage the entire space. Instead, I can't even figure out which drive or partition is which (three hard drives, 8 partitions).
Why can't Linux (most distros--some are clear) at least give you a "sdb (0,1,0) 25.6GB" "hint" that you are installing to where you want to?
I've tried thirty versions/distros of Linux over the years (starting with Corel Linux) and for the same handful of reasons, never replaced Windows, or for that matter, even used Linux much.
1) Partitioning woes (explained above)
2) Inability to play well with Windows networks
3) ALSA? I've NEVER gotten it to work for me; it either works out of the box or I never have sound
4) Needing to download every audio and video codec and it's associated libraries to play an mp3 and watch a Divx movie
5) Completely non-intuitive naming of almost every part of Linux (why can't the names at least hint at what they are?)
Yes, I want a more Windows-like Linux. I grew up with the DOS command prompt. Been there, done that.
Lost a small program I had for dual boot choosing. It was a small app that gave me to choice of what to boot first or gave me 2 choices at start up.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have two drives (sde 120Gb) and sdh(250Gb) which I want to use for the following setup: sde + 120Gb of sdh as a striped LVM as an ext4 partition remaining 130Gb of sdh as a separate ext4 partition I am able to use the build in partition manager in Mandriva to set up the rest of my disks and I can set up an LVM as planned above, but I find no way of choosing whether it should be linear or striped. This means I will most likely have to do it from the command line. Can someone tell correct commands to set it up?
View 6 Replies View RelatedExt2, ext3, or ext4? I first used ext4 with Slackware, but when I tried my Puppy live CD the only partition I could mount was the Windows one. I started over and used ext2 and Puppy will mount it. I'm willing to start over and use ext 3 if it will also work with Puppy and there is an advantage to using ext3 over ext2. Puppy saw the ext4 partitions, but wouldn't mount them.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was in the process of installing Ubuntu 11.10, but got stuck choosing which file system to use. ext3 and ext4; which is better for a personal desktop? If ext4 is better, will it work well on my old PC (bought 3 years ago), or perhaps ext4 is not actually compatible with an old hard disk?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI tried to add a new launcher to a xfce panel on an Ubuntu 9.04. The problem is that I want to create a launcher for a .txt file - and the launcher does not give me the option of choosing "type". I read the following:
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i just recently installed a hp DVD writer dvd200i in my computer and it wont read or write DVDs, yet it reads and writes cds perfectly.I actually think its a driver issue my computer is ide and 4 yrs old if that helps any with Linux Mint
View 8 Replies View Relatedi'm trying to burn an iso file to a CD but brasero seems don't work. what else is there that will work?
View 8 Replies View Relatedonce I get to the terminal command window, how do I start the dvd iso burner? standard ubuntu 10.04 x64 client install.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt's been a while since I hosed my system, and I finally stopped procrastinating to backup, format, and reinstall. The latest disc I have available is 9.10, and getting new ones is a feat now that Canonical won't mail them to me. So I installed 9.10 and immediately upgraded to 10.04; somewhere in there it asked me where to installed GRUB and I told it sda1 but not sda, which was apparently a mistake.
I got an error about "grub_puts_" being undefined and used this guide per a relevant thread. I rebooted and got through GRUB, but now all that comes up is the purple background and my cursor; the mouse doesn't move, not that there's anything for it to click anyway. I went on #ubuntu IRC and was advised to do a clean install rather than an upgrade.
Of course I can just stay with 9.10 but would prefer the latest (of course it's about to be obsolete anyway...). I have also heard that it's possible to install to a USB drive; I'm guessing that likewise requires a CD? I guess what I'm wondering is whether I can use a 9.10 install to download and install 10.04 directly to a different device? Finding someone who has a CD burner is a real hassle.
I am trying to burn an .iso but Ubuntu won't see my burner at all.. Newb to ubuntu, I am on 10.10.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a Iso CD Burner Program that runs on Ubuntu.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu on my newly built computer from a USB drive. I have tried to install a LG DVD burner but when I insert media the computer does not recognize my player.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'd like to replace my HP CD-Writer+ 8290 external CD burner. It works fine with Windows but is flaky in working with Linux (across multiple distros).I'm interested in buying an external DVD burner. If you use an external DVD burner with Puppy Linux or any other Linux distro, what are you using?Is there a list of external DVD burners that work with Linux?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a full featured CD/DVD, Image burning program. I have mostly used simple programs but is there one somebody would recommend that is full featured and/or opensource/Just Free.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just got a new DVD burner and decided to get a cheapest burner (an LG SATA burner) I did not have much preferences on either IDE or SATA so I just got a serial ATA. K3B burns DVD's just fine, but the speed is pegged at 1x even though writing speed specified was 8x. Device buffer is fluctuating from 0 to 80% all the time, which seems to suggest that the data is not being fed into the drive at good sustained rate to write faster.
I tried:
hdparm -d /dev/sr0
which I got:
/dev/sr0:
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
doing:
hdparm /dev/sr0
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OpenSUSE 11.3, Brasero 2.30.1 Brasero can't detect dvd-burner. Dialogs, that should allow burner-device selection is grayed out and contain only one option "No disc available". The device itself is known to be working. How to fix this?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am a complete noob when it comes to ubuntu. I installed it ater advice from a friend that it is better than MACos. So far I am loving it, but i cannot burn cds/dvds. When i try to, i get the ollowing error:
Session error : SCSI error on write(128,16): See MMC specs: Sense Key 3 "Medium error", ASC 10 ASCQ 00 (brasero_burn_record brasero-burn.c:2862) i have almost no computing skills at all, that would alow me to get better and also be able to burn a cd. Using ubuntu newest version, and brasero same foe burning.
Finally got around to buying a DVD player so i put 3 old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns on one dvd and it plays fine on the computer. However , when played on the tv-dvd player only one movie ( the last one on the dvd ) would play . I did not use a 3rd party converter app as the dvd player advertised that it would play standard avi movies. I burned with Brassero and noted that half the dvd was still blank if that's relative .
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've run into a problem when i put dvd's in it don't see them when i put cd's in it pick them right up?I have added my self to groups audio cdrom disks and a few others but no luck..I even changed out my dvd burner thinking it was messed up and the new one does the same.I'm thinking it something to do with the permission but i might be wrong or maybe something to do with permission for a dvd software dvdrw tools or something i don't know but i'm at a wits end.
When i put in a cd and goto yast>check media its all good but a dvd it say no media found.
burning dvds or cds was always a bit tricky on my computer. I don't know why, but when i tried to burn a dvd+/-r it always ended in failure. but when i burned a dvd+/-rw before i was able to burn normal dvds and cds. i never knew why i needed this trick but it worked fine, so i had no problems with that.But now my burner doesn't recognize dvd-rws anymore and that's a big problem!! it recognizes all blank dvd-r i have, but when i try to burn to them they fail. so i need to recognize my dvd-rws!!
View 13 Replies View RelatedI installed LG GH22NP20 Internal Super Multi DVD Rewrite Drive to use with MythTV. I have tried Knoppmyth and mythbuntu. It can read CDs but won't read DVD's. I haven't tried burning anything yet. Sometimes when I click the eject button on the burner case, the following error is displayed:
failed to eject "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RAM_GH22NP20 is not a volume or drive"
I'm new to Linux, but it looks like there is a simple configuration that has to be done. I tried using MPlayer movie player and VLC media player but to no avail.
Kernel:
2.6.28-11-generic
I'm in doubt whether my dvd burner is working properly. Do you know of a free of charge program to test it fully?
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy DVD Burner is a MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ-120 i'm running DEBIAN SQUEEZE.In the past using Kubuntu (until 9.10) it burned DVD without problems other info are in the k3b debug output..I'm using VERBATIM DVD+R i don't know what to do.
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