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!!
about 2 months ago, my DVD burner stopped working... It would just burn stuff, say successful, then be unusable. I can see information on the disk, but it doesn't look like it worked. (Weird look to the data). if I pop in a disk, it just loops into this noisy blinking state, and I can hear the eye flipping about... never really doing anything.
I am a Windows refugee who discovered Ubuntu as a way to save my files from my virus-ravaged computer. Had no installation discs for Windows, so when I had to wipe my hard drive and start over, I decided to give Ubuntu a try. I've had mixed success, but that's another post...
Right now, the problem is that I installed 10.10 two weeks ago and was able to connect to the Internet with no problems - until yesterday. Suddenly, our wireless network (the only one in the vicinity) does not come up as available in Network Manager. In fact, the entire wireless option disappeared. I know there are many posts and threads on here about this, but weeding through them trying to find an answer is more frustrating than actually dealing with the problem. I know the router works because I can post on this forum from the Macbook. I really like Ubuntu and would like to keep using it, but not being able to connect to the Internet now on top of the other issues I've had is making me doubt I want to continue down this Linux road.
P.S. When I attempted an analysis through System Testing, it said something about there being no proprietary drivers?
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
It'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 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.
I'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?
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.
I 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.
I 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 [Code]....
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?
This 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 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 .
I'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.
I 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.
my 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.
I had no trouble using k3b in my aptosid box-- 'til today. Some package I upgraded must have altered some config because now k3b doesn't even recognize my CD-burner/DVD player. I used apt-get purge to get rid of k3b and apt-get install to re-install k3b. I rebooted but no luck.hen all worked just fine before this problem, my CD-burner/DVD player drive was known as /dev/cdromInfo on my k3b: Version 2.0.2Using KDE velopment Platform 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5)y kernel and OS: Host/Kernel/OS "aptosidbox" running Linux 2.6.35-7.slh.1-aptosid-686 i686 [ aptosid 2010-02- kde-lite - (201009132215) ]What do I edit to get k3b to see my CD-burner/DVD player?
I tried six different M3 files using Bresaro Burn to burn to a CD (audio cd) however, one of these files are able to burn to a disc with Bresaro application. I burned the same files using Windows Media Player on my xp desktop.
My DVD/CD burner is rather old now (going on 5 years), and I've had some "quality" issues when I've been burning stuff for the past year.
CD's: When I play a burned CD in my car stereo, the songs have a "skipping" sound to them on the low-volume levels of the audio. I use K3b as my burning software, and it seems to be the best, but am I wrong? Is this a common problem?
DVD's: Specifically video DVD's. After converting the .avi to an image file using DeVeDe Creator, it gives me a file that has the .iso and I burn the disc using K3b. It's really hit or miss.
The question: is there a way to test the performance of my DVD burner to make sure it's working properly? Is there a way to calibrate the mechanism? I have a new External DVD/CD burner that supports "LiteScribe" (I could be mistaken on the name, but it's a technology that allows you to create a picture on the opposite side of the disc), but my INTERNAL is a 5 year old Lite-On.
just trying to copy a cd to ogg.. can see the music.. can see the burner gui..its asking for the path to the cd right click on the cd icon.. nothing.look in the 'computer' section of places.. useless.look in a load of folders, where it may be.. nothing.
I know I can use things like regionset and VLC to bypass region encoding (which I already do), I was really wondering if you can actually purchase a drive that is "region free" without having to apply hacks/ patches/ voodoo etc.I've done the "google thing" and all I come up with is hacks while using windows, I'd really like to get a drive that is completely region free.
