> Has anyone noticed an inability to burn cd's when running F8? I recently > noticed this on my home machine and thought it was hardware related until > i > tried another cd burner and got the same result. The error stating that > there was an error while recording. However the home machine still reads > the > cd's but just will not complete the burn process without throwing an > error. > It isn't much to go on and i thought it rather minor until I rolled into > work and found my f8 station not even giving me an error but not > recognizing > the blank cd in the drive ( i tried several blanks). It worked yesterday > when i burned an F9 Alpha which subsequently spun right up and installed > on > an old dell. Today after the most recent update it fails to recognize any > cd's blank or not. Is this some general issue felt all around or did > somebody give me the evil eye? I have been using F8 for a while and have no problems burning DVDs, CDs, or with sound. Could you post a copy of /sbin/lspci and give us a better idea of what you have for a chipset?