lightscribe cd/dvd writers and linux

[Steven Pasternak]

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)?