On Friday 02 April 2004 06:28, Syd Hancock wrote:
Strongly advise that you update your copy of K3b from the K3b website as many of these issues have been sorted out from version 0.10.x onward.
I tried some SuSE 9.0 rpm's linked from the k3b site, but they were built against KDE 3.2 when 9.0 ships with 3.1x, after forcing the issue I found that k3b didn't want to start (or at least get further than the splash screen)
After a lot of hair pulling I managed to upgrade to the latest version of k3b from source. Still have a few issues (mainly that my pioneer drive barfs if it is asked to burn a CD any faster than 4x, despite the fact that it should be capable of 8x) k3b still moans about the cdrdao thing and ide-scsi, but it seems to work regardless (the 4x-8x thing is not limited to just DAO mode)
Must say though that getting k3b to compile properly on my system turned into a 2 hour headache (litterally)
FIrst of I had complaints that libGL.la was not a valid archive during the build, eventually I found a post by an Nvidia maintainer to say that the comment at the top of libGL.la needed adjusting to include the word libtool !! Fancy that a comment causing a problem (apparently libtool greps the file for the words "generated" and "libtool"), before I resorted to google however I wasted some time actually believing that there was something fundamentally wrong with my GL libs.
Then I had a working k3b with no mp3 support, this turned out to be due to a missing MAD lib which was eventually installed using YaST (the funny thing here is that the prebuilt k3b on SuSE worked fine on mp3's without it)
I really like k3b, it has a nice polished feel, but the scant documentation lets it down quite a bit.
Anyway thanks Syd (and others) I now have DVD burning etc all working (apart from that speed issue)
Wayne