[plug] DVD burn question

[Timothy White]

Under gnome, there are removable media prefs to disable autorun. It
shouldn't be too hard to find. That's one of the first things i turn
off on a new system!

On 6/28/07, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:06 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
> > Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 20:52 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
> > >
> > >> Gavin Chester wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:42 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
>
> -big snip-
>
> > >
> > > Summary: I would get good quality dvd-r media, reboot and try the disc
> > > copy process from scratch with k3b and you should have good results.
> > > BTW: maybe change your desktop behaviour so totem doesn't start
> > > automagically - it may be interfering with control of your drive - it
> > > certainly will be mounting your disc before you want. HTH.
> > >
> > > Gavin
> > >
> > Gee, Gavin you've gone to a lot of trouble for me - thanks.
> > I'll report progress as soon as there's any to report.
> > regards
> > Dave
>
> Well, that's okay - it's what the FOSS community thing is all about :-)
> My experience and knowledge was hard won over many frustrating times
> trying to burn dvds, so if someone else can benefit from that ...
>
> A qualifier to what I said though: I need to emphasise that the whole
> reboot thing is only needed if you lose access to or control of your
> drive. Otherwise ignore that part of the equation :-) I don't know how
> you do it in gnome, by totem starting automagically when you don't want
> it is why I don't tick the "do this everytime" check box that kde pops
> up ;-)
>
> Gavin
>
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