Comments on: Installing Lacie 4L Lightscribe software on AMD64 Ubuntu/Debian systems (Updated x3)

By: hrsterne

hrsterne — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:12:52 +0000

I have been searching all evening on how to do this, I followed your instructions and they worked awesome. Thanks a million.

By: Chris Samuel

Chris Samuel — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:57:58 +0000

Hi Ant,

Yeah, that happens for me too, I just do the image a second time and it gets good enough for my purposes. I’ve no idea where that issue is, or if that’s just how Lightscribe is (I don’t use ‘doze so I can’t verify if the same thing happens there too).

The great thing about Linux is the choice!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:52:39 +0000

hi, I run Ununtu 8.04 on one machine and Mint 5 on another. I like both for different reasons. However Ive followed the advice of this thread and whilst everything works ( both o/s the same) I find that the images sent to print on the Lightscribe drive are faint and blacks look like a washed out grey.

So the question is: Is this the software / The media / The o/s’s / or is lightscribe just not very good?

Yours in Linuxness:)

ant.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:15:46 +0000

I also had to issue the command:
sudo ldconfig
to get the 4L application to find the lightscribe library.

By: Samm

Samm — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:17:33 +0000

Thanks for your advise. Work perfectly on ubuntu 8.04/amd64

By: Chris Samuel

Chris Samuel — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:49:53 +0000

Aha – what you need to do is run 4L-gui program!

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

Best of luck!
Chris

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:29:21 +0000

I am probably just new at these, but I followed the directions and everything seemed to go well. But I don’t know what to type in the terminal to get a program to start. I didn’t notice anything added to my applications either. Thanks
Nathan

By: Vin¢

Vin¢ — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:05:33 +0000

Brilliant. Also works w/ lightscribe-1.12.37.1 under Kubuntu 7.10 (64-bit)

By: rac

rac — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:23:34 +0000

Very good howto… worked just fine
Hope u dont mind that i translated this to german and posted it on my site
http://www.2030.tk/wiki/Lightscribe_with_Ubuntu_7.10

By: sean

sean — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:41:13 +0000

I’ve followed these instructions and got both the LaCie and the Simple Labeler running thanks to all this genius. The apps run fine, but when I actually try to burn, I get this error: A communication error with the LightScribe drive has occurred. Please restart the LightScribe Simple Labeler and try your label again.

The drive *was* working just fine under Windows 2000, just the other day. I’m in the process of *sigh* getting another Windows partition up just to see if the drive has actually failed, or if it just hates Ubuntu.

Anyone else have this issue?