On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:40:25PM -0700, Zanterian wrote: > Hello fellow arch enthusiasts, > > I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I > thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare. > > I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster, > and nothing would get written. > Then it would give me a log saying > > could not find burn:// directory > > After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd > > Finding that strange, I did the command > > dmesg | grep ide > > with this as the result > [ 5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw > xa/form2 cdda tray > > So this is where I made the sloppy solution: > I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to > /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks. > > > So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug? > I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing > educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with my > fingers crossed. > My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing] > repositories. > > Thanks, > - Eric > You should look into the setup for Brasero and see if you can change the device. I stopped using it quite a while ago and use a command from a terminal. T.
