LightScribe for Linux

by Corwyn — last modified Jan 30, 2008 08:53 PM

— filed under: Multimedia Solutions

this How-to shows how to download and install the LaCie 4L LightScribe Labeler for Linux.

Applicable to Fedora Versions

Download and install the Host Software and the LaCie LightScribe Labeler for linux. Open a Terminal window to perform the following steps.

wget http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/lightscribe-1.4.136.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm
wget http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/4L-1.0-r6.i586.rpm

Install the Host Software and the 4L LaCie LightScribe Labeler. You should install the Host Software first:

su -c 'yum localinstall lightscribe-1.4.136.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm'
su -c 'yum localinstall 4L-1.0-r6.i586.rpm'

Fedora 7, due to the change to libata, changed the name of the CD/DVD drives and the LightScribe software cannot recognize a drive is installed. Creating a link from the new drive name to the old one solves this problem.

su -c 'ln -s /dev/scd0 sr0'

Start the 4L LaCie LightScribe Labeler to burn labels to the disk. It is strongly recommended to use high contrast images:

4L-gui

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net