K3b

[troggybeta]

I have recently installed Salix 14.1 64 bit Mate. Very pleased with it and have managed to install all the software I normally use, except --

The only problem is that K3b, my much preferred dvd burner, starts up with the message that it can't find an optical drive. It does this
for both versions available from slapt-get. CDW writes dvds with no problem. And K3b worked fine on this same box (same dvd drive, same discs) running Ubuntu 10.04.

I've tried all googled solutions except installing HAL from an older SlackBuild.

Can anyone provide any insight?

Thanks in advance.

Troggybeta

[slack631]

Hi

Try this:

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sudo modprobe sg

and finaly put it in rc.modules:

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sudo echo "modprobe sg" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

Hope this should be a solution.

[Van_Vinkle]

Being in the desktop environment of Mate, which uses GTK whereas K3b belongs to the Qt planet, I think you could test Brasero (it is in the gslapt repos). It works well for me.

Regards.

Van Vinkle

[troggybeta]

Slack631,

Thanks for the very prompt reply.

Running 'modprobe sg' does not enable K3b to find the optical drive. It does cause Salix to pop up a warning dialog "Unable to mount Blank DVD-R Disc" "Location is already mounted" whenever a blank DVD-RW is inserted into the drive. This warning isn't a problem as can be readily closed.

I'm very new to Salix and so very in the dark here. Gslapt shows 2 versions of K3b, both of which report themselves as installing with no problems. I have a brand new installation of Salix 14.1 64 bit Mate that I really haven't tweaked at all. K3b ran fine on this hardware under Ubuntu 10.04. Is the likelihood here that no one else is using this package or that there's something glitched about my setup?

This is not a crucial issue as CDW is working fine for me. I just like K3b, having used it for years, and I'm curious about what's going on here.

Thanks again.

[slack631]

Hi

I rushed to to reply,sorry. I cant reproduce that problem now,
I didn't try to use K3b, or to install it. it is KDE applications. Inserting sg module
doasn't produce a error message here, in Xfce enviroment though.

That worked for me a couple of years earlier with Nero Linux, and I think with K3b also, sg modul was necessary. But it was Xfce Salix.

I hope there is a solution somwhere, but keep in mind that it is a KDE application.
Maybe it requires some additional dependencies.

regards

[laprjns]

The only problem is that K3b, my much preferred dvd burner, starts up with the message that it can't find an optical drive. I

I get the same error on my Saliix Mate installation, but it works fine on Salix XFCE and OpenBox. I'm still trying to run down the problem,I thinking its a permission issue with the Mate additions.

It does this for both versions available from slapt-get. CDW writes dvds with no problem.

There really shouldn't two version of the same package in the Salix package repo. One of them appears to be a Slackware package and the other from Salix. I sure this wil be corrected shortly.

[djemos]

udisks package is missing from salix-mate. K3b need this since hal removed.

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sudo slapt-get -i udisks

[laprjns]

Yup, that worked!

[mimosa]

This should presumably be noted for the next round.

[gapan]

We can just add udisks as a dependency of k3b (which I just did).