Burning CDs with Fedora Core 3

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:11:13 -0800

Well guess what! I went to burn a CD with Fedora Core 3, and got - nothing!
X-CD Roast didn't work.
Even cdrecord from the command line didn't work!

I tried cdrecord -scanbus and could see my burner there, your typical cheapie ATAPI CD/RW unit.
cdrecord -eject dev=1,1,0 image.iso   This did not work! Argh!
cdrecord dev=help   Aha. Something useful. And there is the answer.
cdrecord -eject dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 image.iso   Success at last! So there you go.

Installing Audacity

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:11:56 -0800

After a few weeks of false starts, I'm putting together a Linux box that I will use for audio production, as I want something to replace my Tascam 444, which has bit the dust and is basically unrepairable. What I want to do is to create a box I can use for multi-channel recording with playback-during-record; basically a Linux based hard-disk multichannel recorder.

At the moment, I am trying to install Audacity, a popular Linux recording app. I go to install it. And it wants dependencies! I lost track of 'em all, but so far here is what I've got.
atk-1.8.0 gtk+-2.4.14 libmad-0.15.1b
audacity-src-1.2.3 lame-3.96.1 madplay-0.15.2b
glib-2.4.8 libid3tag-0.15.1b pango-1.4.1
It is late. Time for bed. No, now I remember. I need to install wxGTK. I tried the X11 version, but no go. I tried wxGTK, and it laughed at me, cuz I didn't have GTK! Well, I went to get GTK, and it's not really one thingie, it's four! So I install the four thingies (atk, glib, gtk+, pango), and now to try wxGTK again...
And ./configure dies. It says I don't have GTK
I just INSTALLED IT! Argh.
So I do a "locate -u" and then "locate gtk-config" No such file. Didn't I just install GTK??? I thought I did.
It is later. More time for bed. I'm pondering how this is supposed to be better than WinXP, and am not about to become one of the "Windows BAD!" Nazis.
Okay, I should have gone to sleep. I'm trying to install wxGTK-2.4.2 and it just will not go! I have already installed the GTK stuff, and I have gone over the INSTALL.txt file in the wxGTK dir, and have tried the variations. It is as if I never installed GTK.
Fine, it's bedtime. I'm powering down the box and powering down my head.

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Burning CDs with Fedora Core 3

Installing Audacity