CentOS - Feb 2010 - Lightscribe

I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external 
USB-connected CD/DVD burner.  The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can 
burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I 
assume, CDs) but have been unable to use the lightscribe software to 
label a disk.  I have lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 and 
lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 installed, can run the GUI at 
/opt/lightscribe/Applications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler which promptly 
and stubbornly tells me "--<no lightscribe drives found>--".
This IS a lightscribe drive, according to the specs, the box and the 
logo on the tray.
This is on a fully update CentOS 5.4 system that has behaved very well 
since I built this box (Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P) about 3-4 months ago.
This is certainly no a critical situation but having new stuff that 
doesn't work is rather irksome to me.
Can anyone offer a clue or two?

Thanks!

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external
> USB-connected CD/DVD burner. ?The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can
> burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I
> assume, CDs) but have been unable to use the lightscribe software to
> label a disk. ?I have lightscribe-1.18.11.1-0 and
> lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 installed, can run the GUI at
> /opt/lightscribe/Applications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler which promptly
> and stubbornly tells me "--<no lightscribe drives
found>--".
> This IS a lightscribe drive, according to the specs, the box and the
> logo on the tray.
I do not have any lightscribe capable DVD writer.

I am presuming you have lightscribe capable media in the drive as
well.  If so, it might be worthwhile to contact the software vendor.
IIRC, LaCie had published rpm package for lightscribe but I suspect it
worked with their own branded hardware.

-- Arun Khan