K3b not working

[Bert Manchap]

Hi,

I've just launched K3b for the first time after a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.04 and get the following message...

No CD/DVD writer found.
K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system. Thus, you will not be able to burn CDs or DVDs. However, you can still use other K3b features like audio track extraction or audio transcoding or ISO9660 image creation.

So, I can't burn CD's or DVD's at the moment

Can anyone please explain what's wrong?

Many thanks.

[dibl]

Re: K3b not working

That's kinda weird -- did you install Kubuntu from a CD? Do any other types of CDs or DVDs (music, etc.) appear to work correctly in Kubuntu? If so, something is definitely wrong with K3b. If you're in a hurry to burn a CD, you might try installing Brasero -- it is a Gnome package but works fine in Kubuntu.

[Rog131]

Re: K3b not working

No CD/DVD writer found.
K3b did not find an optical writing device in your system.

How is your hardware detected ? What tells:

sudo lshw

man lshw

LSHW(1) LSHW(1)

NAME
lshw - list hardware

SYNOPSIS
lshw [ -version ]

lshw [ -help ]

lshw [ -X ]

lshw [ -html | -short | -xml | -businfo ] [ -class class ... ] [ -dis‐
able test ... ] [ -enable test ... ] [ -quiet ]

DESCRIPTION
lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware
configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,
firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache
configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and
on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

Here:
with DVD writer:

description: DVD-RAM writer
product: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy pm audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram

with CD writer:

description: CD-R/CD-RW writer
product: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100
capabilities: packet atapi cdrom removable nonmagnetic dma lba iordy audio cd-r cd-rw

[Bert Manchap]

Re: K3b not working

That's kinda weird -- did you install Kubuntu from a CD? Do any other types of CDs or DVDs (music, etc.) appear to work correctly in Kubuntu? If so, something is definitely wrong with K3b. If you're in a hurry to burn a CD, you might try installing Brasero -- it is a Gnome package but works fine in Kubuntu.

Yes Kubuntu installed from alternate CD.

I find that, if a CD or DVD is in the drive when I first boot the machine up then in Dolphin I can see the files on the disk. I then launch K3b and it takes a couple of minutes for it to launch and then when it does finally launch, I get the "No CD/DVD writer found" message and then the files/CD/DVD drive disappears from Dolphin!

VERY strange.

[Bert Manchap]

Re: K3b not working

[quote]
How is your hardware detected ? What tells:

sudo lshw

Output gives me this...

id:
cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD+-RW AW-Q160S
vendor: SONY
physical id:
1
bus info:
scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name:
/dev/cdrom
logical name:
/dev/dvd
logical name:
/dev/scd0
logical name:
/dev/sr0
logical name:
/media/cdrom0
version: KDS3
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration:
ansiversion = 5
mount.fstype = iso9660
mount.options = ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime
state = mounted
status = ready