Re: LG DVD ROM

On Sunday 07 Jan 2007 18:22, Eve Kotyk wrote:

I have always been delighted at the way my Mandirva Linux 2006 plays DVD's.
Just insert it and wait for it to come up.

I also have an LG burner. In fact I have two. One of them failed. I returned
it to the dealer. My dealer returned it to the factory. It hasn't missed a
beat so far, (Touch wood!")

I have heard that LG burners had a glitch when used in Linux systems, a
failure since corrected. This seems to fit since niether of my LG burners
have been any problem since it se3ems the glitch has been rectified.

Is your LG stil,. under warranty?

Brian Borley
> A weird thing happened yesterday. I tried to watch a DVD on my computer
> using Kaffeine. The sound was terrible, skipping to silence in some
> places. Then Kaffeine crashed.
>
> So I booted into Windows, and the same thing happened except that it
> crashed the whole machine. In fact it powered down, and wouldn't start
> up again for awhile. This really freaked me out because I couldn't
> imagine what could do that.
>
> I tried the movie DVD in my laptop and everything was fine.
>
> I have wondered about this DVD ROM for some time. Almost anything I try
> to burn in it comes out bad. What would cause it to shut my machine down
> though? I thought it might be a heat problem, but don't know why it
> would generate so much heat.
>
> I run Mandrake 2007.0 Free, AMD 2400+, 767 mg RAM.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?
>
> Eve
>
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Received on Mon Jan 8 06:42:26 2007