K3BHowto
K3B Howto
K3B the howto
K3B is currently the best CD/DVD burning program in Linux. It works for me everytime I need to burn a DVD or CD, and it can even create audio CDs from MP3s with no extra effort.
First step, you need to enable the Universe. Instructions can be found [https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingRepositoriesHowto here].
Then go to the System Tools menu, and open up the terminal.
Type in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
then when thats done:
sudo apt-get install k3b cdrdao
hit enter, give it the password, and do something else while K3B installs.
When the terminal goes back to its default ($), close it.
Right click on the Panel on the top part of the screen.
Select the option "Add to Panel."
Pick the option that says "Custom Application Launcher"
Put "K3B" in the first three lines, and in the "Command" line type
gksudo k3b
Pick the icon you want, click ok, and enjoy K3B. WARNING: Running K3B without the "gksudo" command could result in a non-working K3B, or a K3B that messes up your .ICEauthority file (in laymen's terms, your Gnome won't boot anymore).
If you ever use plain sudo instead of gksudo to open K3B and you cannot log into Gnome afterwards, you must boot into safe mode and type:
sudo chown your user name:your user name .ICEauthority
in the terminal. Then remember to use gksudo from now on.
If you notice that you can't burn discs at the full speed your discs/burner support then you need to modify a couple of files. Ubuntu Hoary doesn't seem to load specific ide chipset drivers after a default install so first you need to know what motherboard chipset you have, use the:
lspci
command to find out. I have an AMD AthlonXP machine with an NFORCE2 chipset so I (and most AMD users) load the amd ide module by adding the following line to the top of /etc/modules
amd74xx
Or, if you have a VIA IDE chipset you could try the module
via82cxxx
instead. Next we need to enable DMA transfer for any optical drives you have by editing the file /etc/hdparm.conf. You will need to know the device name of your optical drive(s) e.g '/dev/hdc' and then enable DMA by adding the
dma = on
command to each optical drive. /etc/hdparm.conf explains its own syntax. The final step is to return to the prompt and issue the command
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/hdparm /etc/rc2.d/S99hdparm
After rebooting you should be able to read and burn CDs and DVDs at full speed.
From CarlosGil Tue Mar 29 01:12:06 +0100 2005 From: Carlos Gil Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:06 +0100 Subject: problem when i try to run k3b Message-ID: <20050329011206+0100@www.ubuntulinux.org>
when i try to run k3b it "stucks" while detecting new devices. What can I do?
The new gnome app for burning
Some good apps well integrated with gnomme appear in universe such as graveman. This program is a good alternative to k3b. Enjoy.