On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 01:47 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. > > > > > What program could I even use to write the label on the disc using the > drive's function (not printable paper labels, though)? > There was a program that came with the lightscribe drive I currently have. I have been planning on getting it to run under Cedega, under Linux. LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
