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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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To: Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: still no cd/dvd burning as user with 2.6.9
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Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use 2.6.9-ac3 on my Laptop and I just wanted to burn a DVD-Video with
> my external Pioneer DVD writer which is connected via fire-wire to the
> Laptop.
> 
> Before 2.6.9-ac3 I used 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 and with this I could write CDs/DVDs.
> 
> <rant>
> So why is it still impossible that users can write CDs/DVDs. I, as a
> user, find this rather ridicolous that you have to patch the kernel to
> get this simple thing running. Security is important, yes, but this is
> just annoying.

Security is important, there are no buts about it. See the almost 
endless thread on this earlier. You can run your burns as root, of course.
> 
> I really hope that gets fixed soon, because its just annoying to reboot
> to a different kernel, just to write CDs ...
> </rant>

I'm not sure what you consider "fixed" in this context, but if you mean 
disabled security I don't personally expect (or want) that.

Someone claimed that cdrecord could get RR scheduling with attributes 
set (did they mean capabilities?), but I haven't seen a working example 
  yet.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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