[plug] DVD burner

[Milan Pospisil]

>>>On 06/24/04 12:20pm  nathan at nathanalberti.com wrote:>>>
Milan Pospisil wrote:

>> Hi Folks,
>>                I am currently thinking about buing a DVD burner(LITEON 8X DVD+/-RW SPEED) from MCG (http://www.mcgtech.com.au/shopframe.asp) 
>>  Are there any known issues/problems as to Linux compatability of this DVD burner(or any other one for that matter) or anything I should beware of before I buy?
>>  The machine considered is: Abit NF7 S mobo, AMD Athlon XP 2.5Ghz, nVidia Ge Force MX 440 v.card, 512 Mb RAM...

>Yea, Depending on your distro of choice the NF7 (nforce) MB can be a 
>real pain in the ass to get working. If your using a Vanilla Kernel you 
>need to apply a few patches (or 2.6.6 seems to have things sorted pretty 
>well) to avoid some really annoying random lockups.

>Nathan.


Well, I have not put the machime completly together and thus have not installed any OS as yet, but the distros on my mind are:
 Xandros2.0, Mandrake 10.0 and possibly SuSe 9.1(if I can get it)
                                                                                                      MP