Bug#496594: brasero: doesn't find DVD media

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:46 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> After selecting files for a "Data DVD" project, selecting "Burn..."
> produces the shows the "Disc Burning Setup" dialog, but the "Select a
> disc to write to" selector is greyed out with the message "There is no
> available medium. Please insert one.", which would be cool except that a
> fresh DVD+RW disc has been inserted (and ejected and inserted, etc.). It
> looks like Brasero isn't smart enough to find /dev/dvdrw1 (default udev
> name), and is too "user friendly" to let me point at it. Heh.
[...]
> Versions of packages brasero recommends:
> pn  gnome-mount                   <none>     (no description available)
> pn  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad     <none>     (no description available)
> ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good    0.10.8-4   GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
> pn  hal                           <none>     (no description available)

Hi,

I'm pretty sure brasero requires hal to be installed and running to be
able to detect blank media in your writer.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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