My DVD payer works great with xcdroast and FC1. Only after Fedora's kernel went 2.6, then it broke. X-CD-Roast is a great CD/DVD authoring tool. And Jörg Schilling had renewed his free ProDVD-key till March 5th 2005. But since the kernel upgrade, something went wrong. Xcdroast had been a major package until kernel 2.6. Here is what <http://xcdroast.org> has to say: "Linux Kernel 2.6.8 broke CD-Writing: I had several reports that the last 2.6.x kernel broke CD-Writing using the ATAPI driver. Don't update if you want to continue to use X-CD-Roast, or switch back to SCSI-emulation." How do we request a response to fix this? Jay Scherrer On Monday 29 November 2004 09:43 pm, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 12:38 am, Scott wrote: > > I'm curious.... > > > > Who do the commercial distros pay to include such software? > > Well, I'm not aware of any major distro right now shipping a legal > dvd-player. The only and first one was TurboLinux a few months ago > shipping CyberLink PowerDVD. > > Soon after that, HP started selling their Linux laptop (which comes > with SUSE) and it had LinDVD on it. Note: the SUSE distro does not > come with LinDVD. This was mainly an HP & Intervideo arrengement > (it seems). > > Right now, you can't buy LinDVD or PowerDVD. They're just doing > business with OEM's. > > So..asking your question, these distros may pay the company that > produces the dvd player...and these dvd companies may pay the > technology owners... > > HTH > Jorge
