Yes, I bought a new laptop, and it is a good one too. Not a bad price, and has everything working that needed to be working EXCEPT one that I would never have thought about: the DVD writer doesn't work. Details: installed ubuntu intrepid intel wifi 5100 works flawlessly nvidia (with proprietary driver, that I installed) works great. have some troubles with kde4 konsole (looks like a lot of people are having problems with this), so I have regressed to gnome-terminal instead got nfs working, and new version of gnuplot, and lyx installed, other minor programs installed to my needs. all works great. then I was going to write some files to my CD-RW, and the device is not found. it is installed as a scsi device, which might be the problem. k3b says I can't use it to write, but read is ok (not sure about that part yet). here are details as I know them: 1. dmesg | grep DVD [ 4.750131] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L, SR04, max UDMA/133, ATAPI AN [ 5.115430] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L SR04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 2. lshw *-cdrom description: DVD-RAM writer physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/dvd logical name: /dev/dvdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 capabilities: audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram configuration: status=open I have searched for GSA-T50L and {linux | ubuntu }, and not found anything useful. any ideas? jerry --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss