One reason not to go with Xorg-x11

[Ed Jabbour]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:36 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> A side note: kernel 2.6.8 ff has broken support for cdrecord. The
> cdrecod author is stuck back in ATAPI days, and the kernel has moved
> on to real device support for cdwriters. Surprise, surprise, he's
> using a stabilized API and complaining that it's broke and
> unmaintained. It's too bad he's the only source for cdwriter
> software. I'm ok on the laptop,but I have to boot an older kernel to
> burn cds on my desktop unit. cdrecord is so screwed up that it locks
> the machine (hard boot time) on 2.6.8 or 2..9 kernels

Odd.  I'm running gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3 on an ATI laptop. 
"cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 . . . ." works flawlessly.  There is a list of 
warnings about the 2.6 kernel, but they seem not to mean anything, so I 
just ignore them.

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Ed Jabbour
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