Mertens, hit the nail on the head mate. Good stuff and thanks. I still havn't tried burning a cd, but will soon. But at least the program loads without the message coming up now.
thanks Greg On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 00:34, Mertens Bram wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:01, greg wrote: > > hi, > > when trying to run xcdroast in either root, or my login, I get this > > message appear before loading: > > Failed to scan the SCSI-bus. Either no permission to access the generic > > scsi devices, or no scsi support enabled in the kernel. For ATAPI > > devices you have to install the SCSO-emulation first. > > > > What does this mean. This is not a SCSI burner. What is the > > SCSI-emulation, and how do I activate it. I remember a while ago, I > > went into cdroast and it was o.k. Since, I have updated the kernel > > (2.4.18-18.0 - red hat 8.0) and I have had a go at turning off running > > modules on boot up to try and optimise the system a bit more. What have > > I turned off, or stuffed up?? > > Hi I altered the following in /etc/lilo.conf: > append="hdd=ide-scsi" ==> append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" > > where hdd is my cd-writer. > > That made it work for me. > > Make sure you get the latest version of xcdroast > (xcdroast-0.98alpha11-1)! Because the version RH ships doesn't allow > non-root access if I'm not mistaken, anyway a lot has changed with the > new release... > > Or you could try writing from the cli with cdrecord. I recently > installed the latest version of cdrecord and my first attempt to burn > cds from the cli were successful! > > HTH > -- > # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #249103 # > # Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) kernel 2.4.18-3 i686 128MB RAM # > # 1:34pm up 3 days, 3:39, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.18, 0.17 # > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
