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. This is on a fully update CentOS 5.4 system that has behaved very well since I built this box (Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P) about 3-4 months ago. This is certainly no a critical situation but having new stuff that doesn't work is rather irksome to me. Can anyone offer a clue or two?
Thanks!
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Robert kerplop@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
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
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:
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.
I'd check with HP - they're pretty good about Linux support for their printers, so you might have some luck for this, too.
I'm kind of surprised at this, too, though - lightscribe is no longer a new technology, and I would think by now that RH would include it, or have drivers for it, in the more recent releases (4 maybe, 5 for sure).
Also, check some of the linux forums on the subject - you might find something else that works. I was looking for this a couple of years ago, but I never saw the value of lightscribe over labels, which can be printed on inkjet or lasers, in full colr, and "stomped" onto most CDs/DVDs with little or no trouble. (I've had to glue some down, but they work just fine.)
HTH
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