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Can one burn DVDs and CDs with the pre-built 2.4.31 kernels that come
with Slackware 10.2? If so, which ones? What extra configuration is
required?

if you installed the kde packages i would suggest you look in to K3B,
it is a great front end GUI for the CD/DVD burning software included
with Slackware...

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:23:45 -0800, TuxRaider wrote:

> if you installed the kde packages i would suggest you look in to K3B, it
> is a great front end GUI for the CD/DVD burning software included with
> Slackware...

Thanks, I've got that. I still need to know what pre-built 2.4.31 kernel
I should use, and how things should be configured.

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:40:40 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:

>> if you installed the kde packages i would suggest you look in to K3B, it
>> is a great front end GUI for the CD/DVD burning software included with
>> Slackware...

> Thanks, I've got that. I still need to know what pre-built 2.4.31 kernel
> I should use,

Since we don't know what hardware you have, how can that be answered?
Chances are good that the "bare.i" kernel would be fine.

> and how things should be configured.

Until they work. See above. You might want to do a little research
(Google) on the phrase "ide-scsi".

--
"Ubuntu" = an African word meaning: "Slackware is too hard for me".

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:23:45 -0800, TuxRaider wrote:

> if you installed the kde packages i would suggest you look in to K3B, it
> is a great front end GUI for the CD/DVD burning software included with
> Slackware...

For a simpler interface to burning discs try graveman.

JB

Steven Jones wrote:
> Can one burn DVDs and CDs with the pre-built 2.4.31 kernels that come
> with Slackware 10.2? If so, which ones? What extra configuration is
> required?

You need to pass hdc=ide-scsi on the kernel command line
(use append=ide-scsi in lilo.conf). Then you possibly need a module
called sg (I don't use a 2.4 kernel anymore, so that I am not sure). To
see if the burning is enabled use (as root).

cdrecord -scanbus

If cdrecord detect your burner then you can burn CD with

cdrecord dev=0,0,0 padsize=5M image.iso

where dev=0,0,0 are to be replaced by the numbers given by
cdrecord -scanbus and the padsize=5M is preferable because the end of
the disk are often unreadable (this option tell to put 5M of 0 at the
end of the disk, to ensure that the end of xwhat you have burn is
accessible). (The normal cdrom device is no more /dev/hdc but /dev/sr0
or something like that, see dmesg and adjust the /dev/cdrom link).

For DVD burning, you need growisofs (present in Slackware) or a
proprietary version of cdrecord (available at no cost on the homepage of
cdrecord).

Of course there are plenty of GUI to burn CD: xcdroast in extra
directory, k3b (not on slackware); but I think that in case of problems,
it is easier to debug it if you know how to use the command line. These
GUI are usually nothing more than interfaces to cdrecord.

Olive

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:17:44 -0600, Dan C wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:40:40 +0000, Steven Jones wrote:
>
>>> if you installed the kde packages i would suggest you look in to K3B,
>>> it is a great front end GUI for the CD/DVD burning software included
>>> with Slackware...
>
>> Thanks, I've got that. I still need to know what pre-built 2.4.31
>> kernel
>> I should use,
>
> Since we don't know what hardware you have, how can that be answered?

You are right. Well, bare.i works on my hardware all right.

> Chances are good that the "bare.i" kernel would be fine.
>
>> and how things should be configured.
>
> Until they work. See above. You might want to do a little research
> (Google) on the phrase "ide-scsi".