Since this is pertinent to this bug, I have sent this to gnats. On 09-Mar-2009 joshua stein wrote: >> I came across a strange problem today. I (accidentally) opened the >> cd/dvd player of my thinkpad w500 laptop. Once the player is opened, >> it is impossible to close it, as it is immediately reopened. >> >> Dmesg is flawed with the following messages: >> acpithinkpad0: unknown type 3 event 0x006 >> >> Any ideas on how I can solve the problem? > > does the event log at the opening or closing of the drive? > > if you disable the acpithinkpad device (boot -c) does the drive work > properly?
On my Lenovo Thinkpad T500, the messages start to display quickly after I open the drive, and the messages do not wait for the drive to close. However, disabling acpithinkpad does cause the messages to disappear, but it does not change the behavior of the drive. -- Aaron W. Hsu <arcf...@sacrideo.us> | <http://www.sacrideo.us> "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat +++++++++++++++ ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) ++++++++++++++
