On Thursday 29 January 2004 18:31, Dave Stevens wrote: > I have a Lite-on DVDRW LDW 411S CD and DVD burner and could not find a > working CD burner in the default set of FC1 packages. I am trying to use > k3b. The user interface is very nice, but for some perverse reason it > doesn't actually write anything on the CD. I am trying to make a copy of > some music and have tried burning an audio cd from ripped mp3s and no joy. > > ideas? What is the output of : cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI: cat /proc/cmdline ? Maybe the permissions on your devices or to cdrecord/readcd/cdrdao are wrong. You could try to run K3b as root and see if it helps. Mihai, happy K3b user