can't burn CDs

[Mark Stone]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 11:21 -0700, Vince wrote:

>> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 11:21 -0700, Mark Stone wrote:
>> I'm having a real problem under Breezy getting my  CD burner to work.
>> When attempting to use either Serpentine to burn and audio CD, or
>> Nautilus to burn a data CD, I get to the point where I am prompted to
>> put in a blank CD, and then this prompt just repeats: the system never
>> recognizes that I have put in a blank CD.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The documentation on
>> Serpentine is pretty sparse.
>
> I can't tell for Serpentine, but I had this problem under Breezy with
> Nautilus. this workaround worked in my case:
>
> Open Gconf editor, and go to apps/nautilus-cd-burner, and tick the
> "overburn" checkbox. It should take effect immediately.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Vince

Yes, that did the trick with Nautilus. So now I can burn data CDs,
which is extremely helpful as part of my backup process. It would be
nice to able to burn audio CDs, however, and I've no idea what the
problem is there.

By the way, it strikes me as a bit odd that:
(a) Serpentine doesn't depend on one of the established apps like cdrecord, and
(b) the Ubuntu team would choose to make such a "re-inventing the
wheel" app the default.

Maybe it wouldn't seem so odd if I weren't having issues, but this is
a good example of why you *don't* reinvent the wheel: you get a chance
to make everyone else's mistakes all over again, as well as new ones
of your own.


-Mark Stone