Re: strange behavior on multimedia eject button for cdrom

From: Harald Dunkel
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 00:55:00 EST


Update: The original problem is _not_ gone yet. Now it takes
just 2 seconds to eject the CD (since it is not spinning by
default), but the sound and network are still affected during
this time.

On this page

http://bugs.debian.org/370186

you can find some information to tell HAL to ignore the CD
drive.


Regards

Harri
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Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi Arjan,

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

try (temporarily) disable the hal storage polling thing.....
that could well avoid the entire issue.



Now _that_ was an improvement. After hald has been stopped the problem
is gone.

Even better: Seems that hald was responsible for keeping my CD drive
spinning all the time. Since hald is gone the CD drive stops spinning
after a few seconds :-). And playing DVDs the whole system is _much_
more responsive, the DVD navigation menus are faster, etc.

Hopefully there is a configure option to tell hald to keep the CD drive
alone.


Thanx very much

Harri

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