Hi,

I'm using KDE with Fedora 10.

I cannot see CDs nor DVDs in "Places" in Dolphin; Konqueror and Krusader also do not seem to have Places. Kaffeine can only use one of my 2 DVD Players. Putting a blank writable disc in the handler does not register as "recently plugged device" -- which means I have no way in KDE (at the moment....) of writing a live cd.

If I use one of the Gnome apps, then all is visible. Any idea how to a) get the CD/DVD drives (with and without inserted disc) into Places? How to get Kaffeine to recognise that I have 2 drive on the same IDE cable?

Any help gratefully received!!!

Dave

Freddog_de wrote:If I use one of the Gnome apps, then all is visible. Any idea how to a) get the CD/DVD drives (with and without inserted disc) into Places?

With disc, it should be there by default. I don't think it's possible to get a places entry for empty discs though.

But it should be possible to use the burner anyway...for your example of liveCDs. K3B can handle that just fine (at least the KDE3 version...the KDE4 version is still a bit touchy...). You should see the device(s) on the left-hand side in K3B. After that, it's only a matter of selecting tools->Burn cd image (sorry if you knew that already).

Note: it would be very handy to have an Empty CD/DVD thing in places, no doubt (and I'd love to have it myself, including the possibility to burn discs without opening a specific program at all - a la Nautilus and WinXP), but it's possible to use KDE-specific tools even without one.

Kryten2X4B wrote:

Freddog_de wrote:If I use one of the Gnome apps, then all is visible. Any idea how to a) get the CD/DVD drives (with and without inserted disc) into Places?

With disc, it should be there by default. I don't think it's possible to get a places entry for empty discs though.

But it should be possible to use the burner anyway...for your example of liveCDs. K3B can handle that just fine (at least the KDE3 version...the KDE4 version is still a bit touchy...). You should see the device(s) on the left-hand side in K3B. After that, it's only a matter of selecting tools->Burn cd image (sorry if you knew that already).

Note: it would be very handy to have an Empty CD/DVD thing in places, no doubt (and I'd love to have it myself, including the possibility to burn discs without opening a specific program at all - a la Nautilus and WinXP), but it's possible to use KDE-specific tools even without one.

Thanks Kryten2X48,

K3b not only burnt my Live CD, but checked it (&failed it!); but also could see both CDs.

Odd, that the various "representers" of hardware, all with a "K" in the name behave so differently..... Ho hum, guess that's the price of getting shiny new toys to play with

Thanks again

Dave