I have built David's patch with hal-0.5.8.1 as shipped with Feisty 7.04 and can verify it fixes my problem (I can now burn discs on this Frankenputer). This is a near virgin install, and the only system component I have built is HAL, approximately as described above. If I get time tomorrow, I'll log the bug and a pointer to the fix with FreeDesktop.org, as that seems to be the official upstream escalation path (there's no separate HAL point of contact, and there's a bunch of similar bug reports (and fixes) already on FD.O:
I have built David's patch with hal-0.5.8.1 as shipped with Feisty 7.04 and can verify it fixes my problem (I can now burn discs on this Frankenputer). This is a near virgin install, and the only system component I have built is HAL, approximately as described above. If I get time tomorrow, I'll log the bug and a pointer to the fix with FreeDesktop.org, as that seems to be the official upstream escalation path (there's no separate HAL point of contact, and there's a bunch of similar bug reports (and fixes) already on FD.O:
https:/ /bugs.freedeskt op.org/ buglist. cgi?query_ format= specific& order=relevance +desc&bug_ status= __all__ &product= hal&content= CDROM+blank+ burn+volume. disc.capacity
). Hopefully that will flush this bug once and for all.
Tony.