Seems as if this is a HAL issue. Essentially what happens is that hal is not detecting my dvd burner as having dvd burning functionality. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run lshal 2.look for dvd burner reference 3.notice no dvd burning support detected 4. also notice nautilus-cd-burner does not detect a burner Actual Results: no burning capability via nautilus-cd-burn Expected Results: allowed me to burn dvds by detected the drive The relevant output of lshal is: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_16X8_DVD_DUAL' info.addons = {'hald-addon-storage'} (string list) storage.policy.desired_mount_point = 'cdrom' (string) storage.policy.mount_filesystem = 'auto' (string) storage.policy.should_mount = true (bool) block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_16X8_DVD_DUAL' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_16X8_DVD_DUAL' (string) storage.requires_eject = true (bool) storage.hotpluggable = false (bool) info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block', 'storage.cdrom'} (string list) info.category = 'storage' (string) info.product = '16X8 DVD DUAL' (string) storage.removable = true (bool) storage.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_53_ide_0_1' (string) storage.drive_type = 'cdrom' (string) storage.vendor = '' (string) storage.model = '16X8 DVD DUAL' (string) storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool) storage.media_check_enabled = true (bool) storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool) storage.bus = 'ide' (string) block.is_volume = false (bool) block.minor = 64 (0x40) (int) block.major = 3 (0x3) (int) block.device = '/dev/hdb' (string) linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_53_ide_0_1' (string) linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/hdb' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/hdb' (string) Emerge info: Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://194.117.143.69/mirrors/gentoo http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://hydrogen.oshean.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib alsa apache2 avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dba dbus dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack jpeg junit kde ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl speex spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Please retry with the latest HAL available. 0.5.5.1-r3 as of this posting and reopen as necessary.