This was working fine but now it doesn't. K3b only cannot identify CDRW device, DVD-RW device is identified correctly though CDRW and DVD-RW is one device. I suspect that cdrtools update could cause it but I didn't test it. My burning device is "DVD-RW GWA-4040N" in Acer TravelMate 292LMi notebook. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start k3b 2. Set CD data project for burning 3. Press Burn button Actual Results: Dialog appears that says that no suitable device was found. Expected Results: Should identify the CD-RW device. # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://download.startnet.klamovka.kosire.czf/gentoo-mirror http://10.15.6.1/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.startnet.klamovka.kosire.czf/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dba dbase dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif extensions flash foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv imap imlib java jpeg justify kde kerberos ldap libg++ libwww linguas_cs lzw-tiff mad mcal mhash mikmod mime ming mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime quotes readline samba scanner sdl session slang snmp spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff transcode truetype usb vhosts video_cards_radeon wifi wmf x86 xine xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"
This is a new problem caused by the 2.6.8 kernel, which I also experienced. You now must be root to burn a cd. I dont know how secure running k3b as root is, so you might want to just use cdrecord.
see bug 60756
Thanks, Miles, I will mark this bug as duplicate of the 60756 because it's the same bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60756 ***
