Arun Khan wrote:
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Robertkerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external USB-connected CD/DVD burner. The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I assume, CDs) but have been unable to use the lightscribe software to label a disk. I have lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 and lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 installed, can run the GUI at /opt/lightscribe/Applications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler which promptly and stubbornly tells me "--<no lightscribe drives found>--". This IS a lightscribe drive, according to the specs, the box and the logo on the tray.
I do not have any lightscribe capable DVD writer.
I am presuming you have lightscribe capable media in the drive as well. If so, it might be worthwhile to contact the software vendor. IIRC, LaCie had published rpm package for lightscribe but I suspect it worked with their own branded hardware.
-- Arun Khan
Yes, I have tried DVD media that is peddled as being lightscribe capable and just minutes ago, opened a 20-pack of CD+R that are supposedly also lightscribe capable. I have tried both the LaCie 4L s/w and lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 and get nowhere with either of them. I do have the driver, lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 installed.
After leaving the original question, I plugged the drive into a WinXP-only laptop, Installed the bundled s/w and the same DVD was recognized -- but only after quite a while. So, I'm about to conclude that the media is flaky, the Linux s/w is impatient at best, broken at worst. Whatever... I didn't throw away my CD marker.
Thanks for the reply