Comment 32 for bug 109763
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| Tony Sweeney (macsuibhne) wrote Re: [Bug 109763] Re: Insert a rewriteable or blank disc when trying to use CD/DVD Creator, with blank disc in CDR drive | #32 |
David C wrote:
> Tom,
> I think it likely that the patch I had attached to my previous message (entitled Additional disc identification) provides a fix for problem with old drives.
> The issue is that newer drives have a command that returns the size of the disc, for older drives this command is missing, but you can probe the disc itself to get the information.
> This is what my patch to hal does.
> It is in a format that you can just drop it into the debian/patches directory of HAL and then rebuild and re-install it.
> I have sent it to the HAL developers but so far there have been no comments from them.
>
> I tested it on my LG drive using HAL 0.5.9, but I expect the patch would
> work with 0.5.8 - the only reason I upgraded was in the hope that this
> problem would have been resolved, and I don't think the affected file
> has been touched for a couple of years.
>
> It would be good to get your feedback on the patch as this would double
> the number of devices on which it has been tested!
>
> David
>
>
David,
I'd gladly give this a try, but I don't know the first thing about
building Linux from source. I've been building FreeBSD and XFree86 from
source for years, and have build the GNU toolchain more times than I
care to think about. But I don''t know where to start with Linux. The
documentation doesn't seem geared to someone who just wants to get the
source and build it (or I'm looking in all the wrong places). If you
could give me a pointer, or better yet a definitive recipe for building
HAL, I'd love to give this a go. The Sony drive I was going to swap in
turned out to be dying, so I have a day or so to kill waiting for a
replacement drive which is ultimately destined for the donor machine
anyway, so I have a real incentive to get this working.
Tony.