Hi,
can anyone help me with this problem: how can I burn dvd under qnx6.3
LN
There may be still be a 3rd party who has software to do this, I think
there was at one time, but generally speaking it is best to create a
foo.iso image, and send it to a Windows machine for burning.
The following link
http://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/inst_1014_5.html
may be useful.
Regards,
Yuriy
“ln” <ln@fake.com> wrote in message news:f7n5do$7ts$1@inn.qnx.com…
Hi,
can anyone help me with this problem: how can I burn dvd under qnx6.3LN
ln wrote:
Hi,
can anyone help me with this problem: how can I burn dvd under qnx6.3
Permit me to join in this thread. The third party cdtools package is
available but it has no QNX specific documentation.
I would also like to burn CDs from within QNX. I have tried to use
cdrecord without success because I am not sure what command line
parameters to use.
Has anyone out there had any experience with this?
Regards
Jim Douglas
Hi,
I use cdrecord, but the release present on qnx site can’t burn DVD.
If you want more documentation, install the man package, after you could
use man pages, but a lot of function don’t work on QNX.
Regards
Thibaut
Jim Douglas a écrit :
ln wrote:
Hi,
can anyone help me with this problem: how can I burn dvd under qnx6.3
Permit me to join in this thread. The third party cdtools package is
available but it has no QNX specific documentation.I would also like to burn CDs from within QNX. I have tried to use
cdrecord without success because I am not sure what command line
parameters to use.Has anyone out there had any experience with this?
Regards
Jim Douglas
Jim Douglas wrote:
ln wrote:
Hi,
can anyone help me with this problem: how can I burn dvd under qnx6.3Permit me to join in this thread. The third party cdtools package is
available but it has no QNX specific documentation.I would also like to burn CDs from within QNX. I have tried to use
cdrecord without success because I am not sure what command line
parameters to use.Has anyone out there had any experience with this?
Regards
Jim Douglas
The CDrecord people abandoned QNX support when QSSL stopped distributing
the free NC version of QNX. The site
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
has been saying
Volunteers wanted for ports to:
QNX → Port for QNX Neutrino underway.
for about four years now.
I think someone got cdrecord to work with QNX 6.3 once.
Part of the price of dropping the NC version of QNX was that the Open Source
community then dropped support for QNX. During the years that the NC
version was available, much open source software was ported to QNX. That’s
over. The major open source development groups no longer bother with QNX.
Over time, less and less open source software works under QNX. Other
than a few projects like Eclipse and GCC, where QNX staff participate,
there’s not much open source left that explicitly supports QNX.
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.
It’s sad.
John Nagle
Although what John says is true, it is also the case that a lot of
open source compiles just fine because of QNX’s posix conformance.
That which doesn’t sometimes needs just a little tweaking, sometimes a
lot, and sometimes just is possible under normal circumstances.
Things like cdrecord that depend on driver support are likely not to
port very easily. I imagine that most of the difficulty porting
firefox is the screen interface.
John Nagle wrote:
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
I’ve wandered away to Linux now.
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.
You can get Firefox 2.0 for QNX here
I have been using the Firefox package continuously now for months, and,
on the whole it works well. I have it sending and receiving mail from
both an IMAP and a POP3 account. The browser has a lot of minor
problems, but on the whole works ok. Chatzilla works very well, with the
small exception that the input line doesn’t echo what I type. Not a big
deal for me, since I touch type, but it would be a problem for
hunt-and-peck, I suppose.
maschoen wrote:
Although what John says is true, it is also the case that a lot of
open source compiles just fine because of QNX’s posix conformance.
That which doesn’t sometimes needs just a little tweaking, sometimes a
lot, and sometimes just is possible under normal circumstances.
Things like cdrecord that depend on driver support are likely not to
port very easily. I imagine that most of the difficulty porting
firefox is the screen interface.
Evan Hillas wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
I’ve wandered away to Linux now.
Yes, we are planning to move to FreeBSD. We are developing our hardware
to do away with a RTOS. My customers want data to be written to DVD and
not CD. Unfortunately we cannot provide them with such a service (not
with QNX).
We hoped that when the runtime CD became available, the support one
expects from such an environment, will improve. But alas…
Francois
“Francois Joubert” <sommerfj@webmail.co.za> wrote in message
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Evan Hillas wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
I’ve wandered away to Linux now.
Yes, we are planning to move to FreeBSD. We are developing our hardware to
do away with a RTOS. My customers want data to be written to DVD and not
CD. Unfortunately we cannot provide them with such a service (not with
QNX).
Don’t know what your product is but why not supply aWindows or Linux box
that takes care of the DVD.
Changing OS is an expensive operation unless there are other reasons then
lack of DVD writting cabability.
We hoped that when the runtime CD became available, the support one
expects from such an environment, will improve. But alas…
Francois
Hi,
Francois Joubert schrieb:
Evan Hillas wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
I’ve wandered away to Linux now.
Yes, we are planning to move to FreeBSD. We are developing our hardware
to do away with a RTOS. My customers want data to be written to DVD and
not CD. Unfortunately we cannot provide them with such a service (not
with QNX).
you can burn DVD-RAM with QNX6 without problems and without a special
driver. They simply behave like harddisks. We use EIDE and SATA DVD
drives for our customers. Because there is no UDF Filesystem for QNX at
the moment, we use fat32.
The DVD-RAM media is more expensive, but burning the data will “not”
touch realtime behaviour of your system. Burning software for CD’s or
normal DVD’s wastes much more CPU Cycles.
So, if this was your only reason, please don’t move.
-Michael
We hoped that when the runtime CD became available, the support one
expects from such an environment, will improve. But alas…
Francois
Francois Joubert wrote:
Evan Hillas wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
I’ve wandered away to Linux now.Yes, we are planning to move to FreeBSD. We are developing our hardware
to do away with a RTOS. My customers want data to be written to DVD and
not CD. Unfortunately we cannot provide them with such a service (not
with QNX).We hoped that when the runtime CD became available,
The runtime CD is available since a LONG time!
–Armin
the support one
expects from such an environment, will improve. But alas…
Francois
Mario Charest wrote:
“Francois Joubert” <> sommerfj@webmail.co.za> > wrote in message
news:fb61jc$orh$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Evan Hillas wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
I’ve wandered away to Linux now.
Yes, we are planning to move to FreeBSD. We are developing our hardware to
do away with a RTOS. My customers want data to be written to DVD and not
CD. Unfortunately we cannot provide them with such a service (not with
QNX).Don’t know what your product is but why not supply aWindows or Linux box
that takes care of the DVD.
Changing OS is an expensive operation unless there are other reasons then
lack of DVD writting cabability.We hoped that when the runtime CD became available, the support one
expects from such an environment, will improve. But alas…
Francois
Unfortunately due to regulatory and security issues we must burn to
write-once media inside a secure environment.
But yes, we do plan to embed a DVD writer with a single-board PC with
Linux or similar to solve the problem in the mean time.
DVD writing is definitely not the only issue why we plan to move away
from QNX. Other issues include USB and other device support, and other
factors not related to QNX performance.
Issues like DVD writing, lack of USB serial drivers (for example) just
makes the decision to move away from QNX that much easier.
Armin wrote:
The runtime CD is available since a LONG time!
–Armin
Yes, and we have been using it for some time now.
Francois
Well, I sincerely hope thing will change around after todays change in how things are going to be done… 
http://www.qnx.com
http://community.qnx.com
John Nagle wrote:
Jim Douglas wrote:
ln wrote:Hi,
can anyone help me with this problem: how can I burn dvd under qnx6.3Permit me to join in this thread. The third party cdtools package is
available but it has no QNX specific documentation.I would also like to burn CDs from within QNX. I have tried to use
cdrecord without success because I am not sure what command line
parameters to use.Has anyone out there had any experience with this?
Regards
Jim DouglasThe CDrecord people abandoned QNX support when QSSL stopped distributing
the free NC version of QNX. The sitehttp://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
has been saying
Volunteers wanted for ports to:
QNX → Port for QNX Neutrino underway.for about four years now.
I think someone got cdrecord to work with QNX 6.3 once.
Part of the price of dropping the NC version of QNX was that the Open
Source
community then dropped support for QNX. During the years that the NC
version was available, much open source software was ported to QNX. That’s
over. The major open source development groups no longer bother with QNX.
Over time, less and less open source software works under QNX. Other
than a few projects like Eclipse and GCC, where QNX staff participate,
there’s not much open source left that explicitly supports QNX.There’s one guy trying to get Firefox 2 to work on QNX, but the
Firefox developers don’t bother any more. That’s about typical.It’s sad.
John Nagle
The problem is, QNX management has said that before:
"The new QNX initiative consists of several key elements . . .
-
In recognition of the ease with which developers can obtain and begin
development with Linux, QNX has decided to make their new QNX Realtime Platform
free “for non-commercial use”. Developers can now download the software and its
associated development directly from the QNX website. -
In response to the growing desire for source code that has resulted from
the exploding popularity of open-source Linux, QNX will soon release the source
code for many QNX applications, drivers, and libraries."
That’s from a press release back in 2000:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3407445841.html
Last time, the free version of QNX stayed around just long enough that
free software developers ported their major packages to QNX. Then
QNX management yanked it away.
Despite the new press releases, the QNX CVS source repository
(http://cvs.qnx.com/) hasn’t been updated in six years.
John Nagle
Colin Burgess wrote:
Well, I sincerely hope thing will change around after todays change in
how things are going to be done… >
John Nagle wrote:
The problem is, QNX management has said that before:
"The new QNX initiative consists of several key elements . . .
In recognition of the ease with which developers can obtain and
begin development with Linux, QNX has decided to make their new QNX
Realtime Platform free “for non-commercial use”. Developers can now
download the software and its associated development directly from the
QNX website.In response to the growing desire for source code that has resulted
from the exploding popularity of open-source Linux, QNX will soon
release the source code for many QNX applications, drivers, and libraries."That’s from a press release back in 2000:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3407445841.html
Last time, the free version of QNX stayed around just long enough that
free software developers ported their major packages to QNX. Then
QNX management yanked it away.Despite the new press releases, the QNX CVS source repository
(> http://cvs.qnx.com/> ) hasn’t been updated in six years.
Forget it and download the new stuff from te SVN repository …
–Armin
John Nagle wrote:
The problem is, QNX management has said that before:
"The new QNX initiative consists of several key elements . . .
In recognition of the ease with which developers can obtain and
begin development with Linux, QNX has decided to make their new QNX
Realtime Platform free “for non-commercial use”. Developers can now
download the software and its associated development directly from the
QNX website.In response to the growing desire for source code that has resulted
from the exploding popularity of open-source Linux, QNX will soon
release the source code for many QNX applications, drivers, and libraries."That’s from a press release back in 2000:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3407445841.html
Last time, the free version of QNX stayed around just long enough that
free software developers ported their major packages to QNX. Then
QNX management yanked it away.
That’s true, and we agree that there is a certain amount of rebuilding to be done. But we’re trying,
and I certainly believe that this time things are going to work out better.
Despite the new press releases, the QNX CVS source repository
(> http://cvs.qnx.com/> ) hasn’t been updated in six years.
Go to Foundry27 http://community.qnx.com - there are individual projects, eg the os source is at
http://community.qnx.com/sf/scm/do/listRepositories/projects.core_os/scm
We’ve switched to subversion now - and the repositories you see there are mirrors of our head branch,
not a one off snapshot!
Cheers,
Colin
John Nagle
Colin Burgess wrote:
Well, I sincerely hope thing will change around after todays change in
how things are going to be done… >