lightscribe cd/dvd writers and linux

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 23 July 2006 01:47, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:27, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>>> Hi! I was wondering how well lightscribe cd/dvd writers work under
>>> linux? They are the ones that can also burn pictures and stuff on
>>> one side of the media and data/music on the other. I don't want to
>>> bother getting it if I can't use that feature (no, I won't use
>>> Windoze, either!). If anyone has any experience with it, do please
>>> tell. Thanks! -Steven
>>
>> I have one built into the HP lappy I bought last spring, with a dual
>> boot of xp and fc5.  Under fc5, with the newest bios, it works
>> perfectly, but even when empty it tends to be very verbose in the
>> logs about some minor thing.  So apparently fc5's bus scanner is
>> alive and well, and it should learn to shut up if there's no disk in
>> the drive. But, I haven't made a coaster with it yet either.  OTOH,
>> I'm not feeding it any lightscribe compatible disks until they're
>> considerably more reasonably priced. $4/disk or more isn't in my
>> budget.  Me old fart, retired etc etc.
>
>What program could I even use to write the label on the disc using the
>drive's function (not printable paper labels, though)?

An excelent question.  And I'm wondering if one or more of the cd label 
makers we have several of might have the optional output to the drive 
as opposed to normally feeding the printer.  The problem of course is 
that while the printer takes a rasterized data format, the lightscribe 
would I assume need to have the rasterization done in a spiral track 
beginning at the outside of the hub bumper.  But this is something I 
haven't personally investigated due mainly to the cost of the 
lightscribe compatible disks.

Best is probably to hit google with the keywords lightscribe and linux & 
see what falls out.

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