Re: LG DVD ROM

The thing is Brian, I've searched LG Electronics and can find no
firmware for the DVDROM. And you are right it is a DVDR, CDRW.

Eve

Brian Borley wrote:
> 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 18:35:11 2007