On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:27, Steven Pasternak wrote: >Hi! I was wondering how well lightscribe cd/dvd writers work under >linux? They are the ones that can also burn pictures and stuff on one >side of the media and data/music on the other. I don't want to bother >getting it if I can't use that feature (no, I won't use Windoze, >either!). If anyone has any experience with it, do please tell. > Thanks! -Steven I have one built into the HP lappy I bought last spring, with a dual boot of xp and fc5. Under fc5, with the newest bios, it works perfectly, but even when empty it tends to be very verbose in the logs about some minor thing. So apparently fc5's bus scanner is alive and well, and it should learn to shut up if there's no disk in the drive. But, I haven't made a coaster with it yet either. OTOH, I'm not feeding it any lightscribe compatible disks until they're considerably more reasonably priced. $4/disk or more isn't in my budget. Me old fart, retired etc etc. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
