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

[wolfgang pauli]

I didn't upgrade the kernel from 2.4.18 for fun! I didn't know that I had 
to justify, why I upgraded it... sorry. All the other tools work by the 
way. I did not have to upgrade cdrecord, because it is still working. The 
fact that K3b works if I am locked in as root and cdrecord works with all 
users suggests that this is not a kernel-problem, am I right?  
 
Thanks anyway! 
 
> 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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