From joebennett at wowway.com  Sun Dec  2 07:15:46 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:15:46 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
Message-ID: <4752A1F2.7070801@wowway.com>

I am running Suse 10.2, and in the past had no difficulty burning an iso
image to a DVD, including the burning of the factory version of 10.3,
which I have not yet installed -- am trying it out on a second computer.
Can you suggest why the 10.2 version should suddenly have decided it not
only will not burn an iso DVD (I have not tried a simple data DVD), it
will not even recognize the presence of a blank, either regular DVD or
double-layer.  I believe I have checked and double-checked the most
likely settings, and can find no reason for this sudden burner
brainfade.  I will appreciate any and all suggestions.
Joe Bennett


From joebennett at wowway.com  Sun Dec  2 09:11:12 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:11:12 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
Message-ID: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>

In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
this question while I'm at it:
This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
simple...really simple.  And thank you.
Joe Bennett
Dearborn


From akulkis3 at hotpop.com  Sun Dec  2 19:35:24 2007
From: akulkis3 at hotpop.com (Aaron Kulkis)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:35:24 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>
References: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>

Joseph Bennett wrote:
> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
> this question while I'm at it:
> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 

I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.


> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
> simple...really simple.  And thank you.

What distro are you using, because what you described
isn't standard.

> Joe Bennett
> Dearborn




From joebennett at wowway.com  Mon Dec  3 07:27:05 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:27:05 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>
References: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com> <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>
Message-ID: <4753F619.2030109@wowway.com>

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>   
>> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
>> this question while I'm at it:
>> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
>> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
>> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
>> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
>>     
>
> I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.
>
>
>   
>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>     
>
> What distro are you using, because what you described
> isn't standard.
>
>   
>> Joe Bennett
>> Dearborn
>>     
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mdlug-newbie mailing list
> mdlug-newbie at mdlug.org
> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-newbie
>
>
>   
AK...
Non-standard? Quite a surprise, since it came with a 10.2 distro
purchased straight from SuSe, DVD/CD package.  I used the DVD to
install, and did nothing fancy, because I do not know how to do anything
fancy.
 
It is quite an attractive splash screen.  Your boot options are enclosed
in a plaque-like rectangle, draped with snow, and a little penguin skips
back and forth in the snow across the top of the plaque while at the
right margin of the screen, another penguin tumbles over and over from
the top to the bottom, representing the timer. When he hits bottom, the
machine boots. Cute.

Initially, a message appeared saying to the effect, If you want this to
be your permanent screen, do... followed by a command line which meant
nothing at all to me.  Most recently, that instruction has not
appeared.  I'd hoped to get it from someone who knew what he was doing.
Now I find that maybe somebody with a puckish sense of humor slipped
something onto my DVD. Can't really tell you any more.

Help!
Joe Bennett

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From akulkis3 at hotpop.com  Mon Dec  3 07:44:56 2007
From: akulkis3 at hotpop.com (Aaron Kulkis)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:44:56 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <4753F619.2030109@wowway.com>
References: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com> <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>
	<4753F619.2030109@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <4753FA48.3050904@hotpop.com>

Joseph Bennett wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>>   
>>> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
>>> this question while I'm at it:
>>> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
>>> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
>>> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
>>> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
>>>     
>>
>> I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.
>>
>>
>>   
>>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>>     
>>
>> What distro are you using, because what you described
>> isn't standard.
>>
>>   
>>> Joe Bennett
>>> Dearborn
>>>     
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mdlug-newbie mailing list
>> mdlug-newbie at mdlug.org
>> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-newbie
>>
>>
>>   
> AK...
> Non-standard? Quite a surprise, since it came with a 10.2 distro 
> purchased straight from SuSe, DVD/CD package.  I used the DVD to 
> install, and did nothing fancy, because I do not know how to do anything 
> fancy.

Ah, I'm on 10.1, and i've never seen that in any of the
6.x, 7.x, 8.x or 9.x versions...


>  
> It is quite an attractive splash screen.  Your boot options are enclosed 
> in a plaque-like rectangle, draped with snow, and a little penguin skips 
> back and forth in the snow across the top of the plaque while at the 
> right margin of the screen, another penguin tumbles over and over from 
> the top to the bottom, representing the timer. When he hits bottom, the 
> machine boots. Cute.
> 

Cool





From gib at juno.com  Mon Dec  3 09:41:16 2007
From: gib at juno.com (gib at juno.com)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:41:16 GMT
Subject: [mdlug-newbie]  While I'm At It... Meeting Sat Dec 8
Message-ID: <20071203.094116.23574.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com>


Joe, since you said keep any suggestions simple let me make this suggestion: bring some of these questions to our meeting.  See our Web site http://www.mdlug.org  we meet and many of the questions that come up are answered. Our next meeting is Saturday December 8Th.

Meetings-
MDLUG meets monthly at The Gaudior Academy in Inkster.
When: 2nd Saturday 1230p to 230p???

Where: Gaudior Academy 27100 Avondale Avenue Inkster MI 48141
            (Please park on south side of building.) 


Joseph Bennett wrote:
>>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>   
>>> Joe Bennett
>>> Dearborn
>>>     
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mdlug-newbie mailing list
>> mdlug-newbie at mdlug.org
>> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-newbie
 
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From Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com  Mon Dec  3 09:31:11 2007
From: Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com (Ingles, Raymond)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:31:11 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
In-Reply-To: <4752A1F2.7070801@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <41C33488FEC67C43BC564F5F086C21FF0ABBACE0@nasa-dtw-ex001.nasa.cpwr.corp>

> From: Joseph Bennett

> Can you suggest why the 10.2 version should suddenly have decided it not
> only will not burn an iso DVD (I have not tried a simple data DVD), it
> will not even recognize the presence of a blank, either regular DVD or
> double-layer.

 When you put in a blank DVD, run "dmesg | tail" and see what it says. If the
kernel isn't recognizing that a blank has been inserted, the GUI won't either.
If the kernel does see it, then you know the problem's higher up.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                           (313) 227-2317

  "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will
 be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Martin Golding
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From Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com  Mon Dec  3 09:29:04 2007
From: Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com (Ingles, Raymond)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:29:04 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <41C33488FEC67C43BC564F5F086C21FF0ABBACDF@nasa-dtw-ex001.nasa.cpwr.corp>

> From: Joseph Bennett

> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
> turned on the machine.

 See "part 5" here, scroll down a ways:

 http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

 He doesn't like it, but you should be able to make it permanent using the info
there. (I Googled for "suse penguin boot splash" and looked for Images.)

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                   (313) 227-2317

 "Realistic physics in games will never catch on. Lara Croft
     would keep falling over forwards." - Stephen Turner
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From joebennett at wowway.com  Mon Dec  3 11:05:30 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:05:30 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
In-Reply-To: <41C33488FEC67C43BC564F5F086C21FF0ABBACE0@nasa-dtw-ex001.nasa.cpwr.corp>
References: <41C33488FEC67C43BC564F5F086C21FF0ABBACE0@nasa-dtw-ex001.nasa.cpwr.corp>
Message-ID: <4754294A.40201@wowway.com>

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Joseph Bennett
>>     
>
>   
>
>  When you put in a blank DVD, run "dmesg | tail" and see what it says. If the
> kernel isn't recognizing that a blank has been inserted, the GUI won't either.
> If the kernel does see it, then you know the problem's higher up.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                           (313) 227-2317
>
>  
>   
Ray Ingles...

I did the dmesg thing and this is what I got:
>
> newpc:~ # dmesg | tail
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:0a:0b.0 at offset 2 (was
> 2000000, w                          riting 2000003)
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:0a:0b.0 at offset 1 (was
> 2b00000, w                          riting 2b00106)
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:0a:0b.0 at offset 0 (was
> 165314e4,                           writing 165414e4)
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> newpc:~ #
>
>
>
> Question: What should I have gotten?  All of this is French to me.
I do appreciate your help and your patience (it will take a lot).

Joe B.....



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From joebennett at wowway.com  Mon Dec  3 11:08:26 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:08:26 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It... Meeting Sat Dec 8
In-Reply-To: <20071203.094116.23574.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com>
References: <20071203.094116.23574.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com>
Message-ID: <475429FA.1070301@wowway.com>

gib at juno.com wrote:
> Joe, since you said keep any suggestions simple let me make this suggestion: bring some of these questions to our meeting.  See our Web site http://www.mdlug.org  we meet and many of the questions that come up are answered. Our next meeting is Saturday December 8Th.
>
> Meetings-
> MDLUG meets monthly at The Gaudior Academy in Inkster.
> When: 2nd Saturday 1230p to 230p???
>
> Where: Gaudior Academy 27100 Avondale Avenue Inkster MI 48141
>             (Please park on south side of building.) 
>
>
> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>   
GIB...
I've intended to do so.  But then, I've intended to do a lot of things. 
I will try harder for this next meeting, on the 8th.


Joe B...


From akulkis3 at hotpop.com  Mon Dec  3 23:07:16 2007
From: akulkis3 at hotpop.com (Aaron Kulkis)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:07:16 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
In-Reply-To: <4752A1F2.7070801@wowway.com>
References: <4752A1F2.7070801@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <4754D274.6070400@hotpop.com>

Joseph Bennett wrote:
> I am running Suse 10.2, and in the past had no difficulty burning an iso
> image to a DVD, including the burning of the factory version of 10.3,
> which I have not yet installed -- am trying it out on a second computer.
> Can you suggest why the 10.2 version should suddenly have decided it not
> only will not burn an iso DVD (I have not tried a simple data DVD), it
> will not even recognize the presence of a blank, either regular DVD or

Sounds like hardware failure.
Burners are especially prone to that, due to the high
temps involved in the burning process.

[This is why, with a laptop, i preferentially use an
external burner rather than the internal one...the
external is cheaper to replace when it goes bad].

> double-layer.  I believe I have checked and double-checked the most
> likely settings, and can find no reason for this sudden burner
> brainfade.  I will appreciate any and all suggestions.




From joebennett at wowway.com  Sun Dec  2 07:15:46 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:15:46 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
Message-ID: <4752A1F2.7070801@wowway.com>

I am running Suse 10.2, and in the past had no difficulty burning an iso
image to a DVD, including the burning of the factory version of 10.3,
which I have not yet installed -- am trying it out on a second computer.
Can you suggest why the 10.2 version should suddenly have decided it not
only will not burn an iso DVD (I have not tried a simple data DVD), it
will not even recognize the presence of a blank, either regular DVD or
double-layer.  I believe I have checked and double-checked the most
likely settings, and can find no reason for this sudden burner
brainfade.  I will appreciate any and all suggestions.
Joe Bennett


From joebennett at wowway.com  Sun Dec  2 09:11:12 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:11:12 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
Message-ID: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>

In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
this question while I'm at it:
This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
simple...really simple.  And thank you.
Joe Bennett
Dearborn


From akulkis3 at hotpop.com  Sun Dec  2 19:35:24 2007
From: akulkis3 at hotpop.com (Aaron Kulkis)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:35:24 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>
References: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>

Joseph Bennett wrote:
> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
> this question while I'm at it:
> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 

I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.


> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
> simple...really simple.  And thank you.

What distro are you using, because what you described
isn't standard.

> Joe Bennett
> Dearborn




From joebennett at wowway.com  Mon Dec  3 07:27:05 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:27:05 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>
References: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com> <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>
Message-ID: <4753F619.2030109@wowway.com>

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>   
>> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
>> this question while I'm at it:
>> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
>> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
>> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
>> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
>>     
>
> I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.
>
>
>   
>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>     
>
> What distro are you using, because what you described
> isn't standard.
>
>   
>> Joe Bennett
>> Dearborn
>>     
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mdlug-newbie mailing list
> mdlug-newbie at mdlug.org
> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-newbie
>
>
>   
AK...
Non-standard? Quite a surprise, since it came with a 10.2 distro
purchased straight from SuSe, DVD/CD package.  I used the DVD to
install, and did nothing fancy, because I do not know how to do anything
fancy.
 
It is quite an attractive splash screen.  Your boot options are enclosed
in a plaque-like rectangle, draped with snow, and a little penguin skips
back and forth in the snow across the top of the plaque while at the
right margin of the screen, another penguin tumbles over and over from
the top to the bottom, representing the timer. When he hits bottom, the
machine boots. Cute.

Initially, a message appeared saying to the effect, If you want this to
be your permanent screen, do... followed by a command line which meant
nothing at all to me.  Most recently, that instruction has not
appeared.  I'd hoped to get it from someone who knew what he was doing.
Now I find that maybe somebody with a puckish sense of humor slipped
something onto my DVD. Can't really tell you any more.

Help!
Joe Bennett

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From akulkis3 at hotpop.com  Mon Dec  3 07:44:56 2007
From: akulkis3 at hotpop.com (Aaron Kulkis)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:44:56 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
In-Reply-To: <4753F619.2030109@wowway.com>
References: <4752BD00.7030500@wowway.com> <47534F4C.70603@hotpop.com>
	<4753F619.2030109@wowway.com>
Message-ID: <4753FA48.3050904@hotpop.com>

Joseph Bennett wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>>   
>>> In addition to my question about DVD burner stubborness, let me toss in
>>> this question while I'm at it:
>>> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
>>> turned on the machine.  Why, at my age, it should be so, I do not know,
>>> but I like that splash screen.  What do I have to do to get it ongoing,
>>> instead of just appearing, unbidden, every so often? 
>>>     
>>
>> I use SuSE, and I've never seen such a thing when I boot up.
>>
>>
>>   
>>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>>     
>>
>> What distro are you using, because what you described
>> isn't standard.
>>
>>   
>>> Joe Bennett
>>> Dearborn
>>>     
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mdlug-newbie mailing list
>> mdlug-newbie at mdlug.org
>> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-newbie
>>
>>
>>   
> AK...
> Non-standard? Quite a surprise, since it came with a 10.2 distro 
> purchased straight from SuSe, DVD/CD package.  I used the DVD to 
> install, and did nothing fancy, because I do not know how to do anything 
> fancy.

Ah, I'm on 10.1, and i've never seen that in any of the
6.x, 7.x, 8.x or 9.x versions...


>  
> It is quite an attractive splash screen.  Your boot options are enclosed 
> in a plaque-like rectangle, draped with snow, and a little penguin skips 
> back and forth in the snow across the top of the plaque while at the 
> right margin of the screen, another penguin tumbles over and over from 
> the top to the bottom, representing the timer. When he hits bottom, the 
> machine boots. Cute.
> 

Cool





From gib at juno.com  Mon Dec  3 09:41:16 2007
From: gib at juno.com (gib at juno.com)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:41:16 GMT
Subject: [mdlug-newbie]  While I'm At It... Meeting Sat Dec 8
Message-ID: <20071203.094116.23574.0@webmail11.vgs.untd.com>


Joe, since you said keep any suggestions simple let me make this suggestion: bring some of these questions to our meeting.  See our Web site http://www.mdlug.org  we meet and many of the questions that come up are answered. Our next meeting is Saturday December 8Th.

Meetings-
MDLUG meets monthly at The Gaudior Academy in Inkster.
When: 2nd Saturday 1230p to 230p???

Where: Gaudior Academy 27100 Avondale Avenue Inkster MI 48141
            (Please park on south side of building.) 


Joseph Bennett wrote:
>>> I'm reasonably intelligent, but I really don't know much about the
>>> internal workings of Linux, so please keep any suggestion
>>> simple...really simple.  And thank you.
>>   
>>> Joe Bennett
>>> Dearborn
>>>     
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mdlug-newbie mailing list
>> mdlug-newbie at mdlug.org
>> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug-newbie
 
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From Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com  Mon Dec  3 09:31:11 2007
From: Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com (Ingles, Raymond)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:31:11 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
In-Reply-To: <4752A1F2.7070801@wowway.com>
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> From: Joseph Bennett

> Can you suggest why the 10.2 version should suddenly have decided it not
> only will not burn an iso DVD (I have not tried a simple data DVD), it
> will not even recognize the presence of a blank, either regular DVD or
> double-layer.

 When you put in a blank DVD, run "dmesg | tail" and see what it says. If the
kernel isn't recognizing that a blank has been inserted, the GUI won't either.
If the kernel does see it, then you know the problem's higher up.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                           (313) 227-2317

  "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will
 be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Martin Golding
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From Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com  Mon Dec  3 09:29:04 2007
From: Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com (Ingles, Raymond)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:29:04 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It...
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> From: Joseph Bennett

> This morning I got that wintery, penguin tumbling splash screen when I
> turned on the machine.

 See "part 5" here, scroll down a ways:

 http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

 He doesn't like it, but you should be able to make it permanent using the info
there. (I Googled for "suse penguin boot splash" and looked for Images.)

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                   (313) 227-2317

 "Realistic physics in games will never catch on. Lara Croft
     would keep falling over forwards." - Stephen Turner
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From joebennett at wowway.com  Mon Dec  3 11:05:30 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:05:30 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
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Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Joseph Bennett
>>     
>
>   
>
>  When you put in a blank DVD, run "dmesg | tail" and see what it says. If the
> kernel isn't recognizing that a blank has been inserted, the GUI won't either.
> If the kernel does see it, then you know the problem's higher up.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                           (313) 227-2317
>
>  
>   
Ray Ingles...

I did the dmesg thing and this is what I got:
>
> newpc:~ # dmesg | tail
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:0a:0b.0 at offset 2 (was
> 2000000, w                          riting 2000003)
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:0a:0b.0 at offset 1 (was
> 2b00000, w                          riting 2b00106)
> PM: Writing back config space on device 0000:0a:0b.0 at offset 0 (was
> 165314e4,                           writing 165414e4)
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> newpc:~ #
>
>
>
> Question: What should I have gotten?  All of this is French to me.
I do appreciate your help and your patience (it will take a lot).

Joe B.....



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From joebennett at wowway.com  Mon Dec  3 11:08:26 2007
From: joebennett at wowway.com (Joseph Bennett)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:08:26 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] While I'm At It... Meeting Sat Dec 8
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gib at juno.com wrote:
> Joe, since you said keep any suggestions simple let me make this suggestion: bring some of these questions to our meeting.  See our Web site http://www.mdlug.org  we meet and many of the questions that come up are answered. Our next meeting is Saturday December 8Th.
>
> Meetings-
> MDLUG meets monthly at The Gaudior Academy in Inkster.
> When: 2nd Saturday 1230p to 230p???
>
> Where: Gaudior Academy 27100 Avondale Avenue Inkster MI 48141
>             (Please park on south side of building.) 
>
>
> Joseph Bennett wrote:
>   
GIB...
I've intended to do so.  But then, I've intended to do a lot of things. 
I will try harder for this next meeting, on the 8th.


Joe B...


From akulkis3 at hotpop.com  Mon Dec  3 23:07:16 2007
From: akulkis3 at hotpop.com (Aaron Kulkis)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:07:16 -0500
Subject: [mdlug-newbie] Burning DVDs
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Joseph Bennett wrote:
> I am running Suse 10.2, and in the past had no difficulty burning an iso
> image to a DVD, including the burning of the factory version of 10.3,
> which I have not yet installed -- am trying it out on a second computer.
> Can you suggest why the 10.2 version should suddenly have decided it not
> only will not burn an iso DVD (I have not tried a simple data DVD), it
> will not even recognize the presence of a blank, either regular DVD or

Sounds like hardware failure.
Burners are especially prone to that, due to the high
temps involved in the burning process.

[This is why, with a laptop, i preferentially use an
external burner rather than the internal one...the
external is cheaper to replace when it goes bad].

> double-layer.  I believe I have checked and double-checked the most
> likely settings, and can find no reason for this sudden burner
> brainfade.  I will appreciate any and all suggestions.




