Problems with k3b

[ahurd]

A while back I was able to burn with K3b. Then it started to interfere with opening of cd tray as evidenced by thread "cd tray not opening". The problem has not gone away. I am also having troubles with other burners, eg, gnomebaker and brasero. Today I tried to run k3b from terminal and got following:
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance )
(K3bDevice::HalConnection) initializing HAL >= 0.5
Mapping udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRAM_GSA_4040B to device /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0 resolved to /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0 is block device (0)
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: INQUIRY (12)
errorcode: 0
sense key: NO SENSE (2)
asc: 0
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) Unable to do inquiry. /dev/scd0 is not a cdrom device
/dev/scd0 resolved to /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0 is block device (0)
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: INQUIRY (12)
errorcode: 0
sense key: NO SENSE (2)
asc: 0
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) Unable to do inquiry. /dev/scd0 is not a cdrom device
Devices:
------------------------------
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollectionerator+=(): function is severely deprecated.
albert@ALBERT-KUBUNTU:~$ k3b
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollection::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char *name, KInstance *instance )
(K3bDevice::HalConnection) initializing HAL >= 0.5
Mapping udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVDRAM_GSA_4040B to device /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0 resolved to /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0 is block device (0)
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: INQUIRY (12)
errorcode: 0
sense key: NO SENSE (2)
asc: 0
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) Unable to do inquiry. /dev/scd0 is not a cdrom device
/dev/scd0 resolved to /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0 is block device (0)
(K3bDevice::ScsiCommand) failed:
command: INQUIRY (12)
errorcode: 0
sense key: NO SENSE (2)
asc: 0
ascq: 0
(K3bDevice:evice) Unable to do inquiry. /dev/scd0 is not a cdrom device
Devices:
------------------------------
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KActionCollectionerator+=(): function is severely deprecated.

Tried to reconfigure and got "could not find an additional device at /dev/scd0". Here is my fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda3 :
UUID=af22c56f-78e9-48a4-ae6b-3b501b82fa5c / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=8078DFDB78DFCDD2 /media/sda2 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_CA.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=2A740A75740A4453 /windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_CA.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=7185a6fc-e27d-4411-ab1f-49054367b077 none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 users,auto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,users,auto 0 0

Could anyone help?

[dibl]

Re: Problems with k3b

The /etc/fstab entry looks right -- I don't think your problem is with Linux so much as with the particular model of CD/DVD optical drive and the wodim driver. Some models of optical drives are just problematic for Linux. Try searching on your model on Ubuntu Forum and with Google -- there may or may not be more things you can do (besides shuffle through all the CD burning apps in the world ....). :P