From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NM6VL-0003SR-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:06:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B760FE058A; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF16E058A for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NM6U4-0006Ih-1Q for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:05:04 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:05:04 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:05:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: CD drive opening on boot!! Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200912181036.48399.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <58965d8a0912180806h2b76ed21s2e643be81fdeedaa@mail.gmail.com> <200912191427.49433.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 513cf9ef-2233-45fb-b7d6-0203fdcf0309 X-Archives-Hash: a4f0b82f9503d210650b50d504419c7d Paul Stear posted on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:27:49 +0000 as excerpted: > Thanks for the replies, I have updated the kernel, udev and hal and the > cd stays closed on boot. Thanks for the info. However I now have > another problem: > When I insert a usb drive or put a cd into the cd drive I am not gettin= g > any notification that they have been detected. I have now realised tha= t > this hasn't been working for sometime. Any thoughts on how to resolve > this? No notice... on what level? At the desktop? What desktop environment do= =20 you use? No notification in the system log? For the USB drive, does the= =20 device show up as a new /dev/sdX when you plug it in? Does lsusb see it? IOW, you didn't include enough information to know where to start on that= =20 problem, or even at what level the problem is appearing, system/kernel/ udev level, desktop environment level, or somewhere on the stack (dbus,=20 hal, perhaps fstab) between the two. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman