Strange behavior - cannot burn cd's and no sound

[Alan]

> Has anyone noticed an inability to burn cd's when running F8? I recently
> noticed this on my home machine and thought it was hardware related until
> i
> tried another cd burner and got the same result. The error stating that
> there was an error while recording. However the home machine still reads
> the
> cd's but just will not complete the burn process without throwing an
> error.
> It isn't much to go on and i thought it rather minor until I rolled into
> work and found my f8 station not even giving me an error but not
> recognizing
> the blank cd in the drive ( i tried several blanks). It worked yesterday
> when i burned an F9 Alpha which subsequently spun right up and installed
> on
> an old dell. Today after the most recent update it fails to recognize any
> cd's blank or not. Is this some general issue felt all around or did
> somebody give me the evil eye?

I have been using F8 for a while and have no problems burning DVDs, CDs,
or with sound.

Could you post a copy of /sbin/lspci and give us a better idea of what you
have for a chipset?