Thanks Kevin! That solves the problem on my iBook2. I haven't checked
other cd/dvd functionality yet. Does it just disable the polling at
wakeup, or all auto-polling?
I'll check the bugreport you noted when I'm next able, and post this
workaround to the various sites I've consulted. (Several relevant pages on
the Ubuntu wiki.)
-Charles
KBM>I remember this being something to do with HAL polling the IDE CD-ROM.
KBM>See http://bugs.debian.org/286820 . To work around it, you can save the
KBM>following snippet as /etc/hal/fdi/local_disablecdrom.fdi (I guess you
KBM>can name it whatever you want as long as it goes into that directory).
KBM>This worked on my iBook G3:
KBM>
KBM>
KBM><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
KBM><deviceinfo version="0.2">
KBM> <device>
KBM> <match key="block.device" string="/dev/hdb">
KBM> <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled"
type="bool">false</merge>
KBM> </match>
KBM> </device>
KBM></deviceinfo>
KBM>
KBM>
KBM>Hope this helps. Would be nice if this bug was documented somewhere.
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