I haven't attempted to burn a cd in a long time, apparently not since I upgraded my kernel to 2.6 (currently 2.6.13), and hmmm, it no longer "just works." Argh. gcdmaster crashes every time I select "new audio CD". Got a message pending replies on the cdrdao-devel mailing list. Meanwhile, I thought I'd try cdrecord, which never gave me trouble before. cdrecord -scanbus complains loudly about the kernel: cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r5-nosmp-nopreempt-wireless cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com