K3b says "no suitable writer found" if run as normal user

[John]

I feel I just have to comment on distro updates (suse).
Mine definitely hasn't update all of the items needed to get the cd
(dvd in my case) writer working with the latest k3b under the newer
kernel. I'm left needing to do multiple updates on a variety of things.
For all I know this may well wreck my system.

Regards
John

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 01:56, Andrew Kar wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:49 pm, wolfgang pauli wrote:
> > I think the problem is really strange. K3b is really user-friendly as
> > long as it works, but if it stops working it is worse than
> > windows-applications. I installed it to make windows users able to use
> > the linux box.
>
> Dont blame your tools. It was all working OK until *you* made changes to
> the system; so what does that suggest?  There have been a lot of changes
> recently to the way CDs are handled by the kernel, the tools and the device
> system. It has been quite a while since CD writers had to work in scsi
> emulation mode so if you upgrade all the cd tools that K3B relies on to
> match your kernel I'm sure that will go a long way to solving your problem.
>
> There is no point in upgrading your kernel just to have a newer one. You do
> it because new functionality is introduced and that commonly requires
> updating other components as well. If you had no compelling reason for
> updating then simply switch back to the older kernel that worked. The
> producers of your distro spend a lot of time making sure everything matches
> and works together. If you want to make changes either be sure of what you
> are doing or wait till the distro puts out a new stable release.

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