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Originally Posted by allofitsik
chiphart, I was wondering how much you have messed with the ACPI on your fedora box. I have a 5660 (Sager) running rh9 with kernel 2.4.22/ACPI. the main reason I recompiled to...
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Originally Posted by xiphux
Try changing the ide module you use to access the drive. So if you're using SCSI emulation for burning, try switching to the normal ide cd driver and burning with ATAPI, and vice...
Thanks for those ideas, but the drive seems to work fine when I dual boot (or boot from the CD), the disks read fine elsewhere, and everything DID work fine under RH 9, etc. I am almost beginning to think that the drive itself is flakey.
I haven't resorted to using cdrecord directly yet (Judas Priest, it has a lot of options and I feel like I'll make a LOT of coasters in the meantime), but I think that's a good idea.
One more piece of data: it would appear that the...
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I've tried booting into KDE (perhaps it was some odd .gnome setting or something) - same results. I can read cds just fine, it's only when I go to write to them.
I see some of you have read this - I'm...
OK, I'm on the road and I need a hand. Who else to turn to? :-)
I was in the midst of burning a number of CDs (using the nautilus drag'n'drop) when I loaded in my 4th blank CD...and the machine froze. Completely.
So, I rebooted...
Well, no one asked, but I'll give a brief review anyway.
Nuked my RH 9 partition (so I could grow it) and installed Fedora from scratch. Very nice, no changes from my other RH experiences - nothing hung, everything detected,...
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Originally Posted by xiphux
I found a way to turn off the lcd's backlight, if anyone's interested in saving power. First, you need the radeontool program, at:...
That is cool, thanks.
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Originally Posted by pr0ph3t
Well, the only thing I've tried is xmms to play mp3's (which it no longer does). I believe some other packages need to be installed for this support to be enabled. Beyond that,...
