Burning CDs with GCombust

[JavaCowboy]

I'm presently using GCombust and am trying to burn CDs with little success. I have a 2X HP CD burner. I can't get it to work with audio files OR with data files. Before I had to reinstall Linux (Mandrake 8.0), I was able to get it to burn data CDs with no problem. I've tried everything that I can think of. When I try to burn datafiles, I get the following error messages:

cdrecord:

** WARNING **: contractions.c 227: popen_r_err_in: execl() returned (cdrecord)

cdda2wav:

** WARNING **: contractions.c 254: popen_r_err_in: execl() returned (mkiosfs)

It then displays a dialog that says "waiting for burn to start" that doesn't change after waiting.

I must admit, I'm somewhat confused as to what's causing this problem, and why I didn't have it the first time around. I'm also wondering if I'm specifying the driver name and device correctly. Is the device the path to the directory (ex /mnt/cdrom) or the /dev path? When I use HardDrake (Mandrake 8.0), it returns TWO devices, an IDE CD-ROM and a SCSI CD-ROM. I know for a fact that my CD-ROM is IDE because I plugged it into the IDE cable myself. Could this be part of the problem?

I've tried entering every possible combination of /dev pathnames and /mnt pathnames, to no avail. I'm wondering if I need to enter information in the 0,6,0 format, and if so, where I need to find this info.

Anyway, I hope that's enough info for you to work with. Hopefully, the solution to this problem is right under my noze and I've missed it.

[JavaCowboy]

Actually, I managed to start burning an audio CD (MP3's to Audio CD) as root. So I'm assuming that the problem has something to do with my permissions as user. How do I give my user permission to use GCombust properly?

Thanks.

[snivlle]

Hello there:

When I first started burning CDs in Mandrake Linux, this is what worked for me. Log in as root, open Mandrake's Userdrake and click on your "user" account name. Click on edit, and be sure that your 'cdwriter' group is included in your "in" groups. This is, of course, presuming that the hardware is properly detected and configured.

Since you can burn "as root" I'm confident that your hardware is configured correctly. Unless your computer is being accessed by people other than yourself, or those you trust, you might need to have your security level set to low. I had my security level set to high and found it too restrictive. Only me, and occasionaly my wife, use this computer; I set my security to low.

[ 11 September 2001: Message edited by: snivlle ]