LA Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further
>developed
> > > on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all
>the
> > > various bus and device types out there?
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further
>developed
> > on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the
> > various bus and device types out there?
>
> You mean someone should write a libcdrom that h
> support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further
>developed
> on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the
> various bus and device types out there?
You mean someone should write a libcdrom that handles stuff like that - quit
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and
>recommended
> > way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type'
> > without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS?
>
> The answer to that could probably fill
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> So I'm still wondering what the "approved and recommended" way for a program
> to be "automatically" informed of a CD or floppy change/insertion and be able to
> informed of media 'type' w/o kernel warnings/error messages. It sounds like
> there is no
> Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and recommended
> way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type'
> without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS?
The answer to that could probably fill a book unfortunately. You need
God wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> > > ---
> > > Must be more than one stupid app...
> >
> > Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and
> > see if there is media in it
>
> Gnome
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> > ---
> > Must be more than one stupid app...
>
> Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and
> see if there is media in it
Gnome / KDE? does exactly that... (rath
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> > ---
> > Must be more than one stupid app...
>
> Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and
> see if there is media in it
---
Is there some feature they *should* be using
> > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> ---
> Must be more than one stupid app...
Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and
see if there is media in it
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On Mon, Mar 05 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> > ---
> > Must be more than one stupid app...
> >
> > xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev
> > package magicdev is not installed
> > xena:/var/log# locate magicdev
> > xena:/var/log#
> > xena:/var/l
LA Walsh wrote:
>
> > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
> ---
> Must be more than one stupid app...
>
> xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev
> package magicdev is not installed
> xena:/var/log# locate magicdev
> xena:/var/log#
> xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep -i magic
> ImageMa
> this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app
---
Must be more than one stupid app...
xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev
package magicdev is not installed
xena:/var/log# locate magicdev
xena:/var/log#
xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep -i magic
ImageMagick-5.2.6-4
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L A Walsh
> Slightly less annoying -- when no CD is in the drive, I'm getting:
>
> Mar 5 09:30:42 xena kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> Mar 5 09:31:17 xena last message repeated 7 times
> Mar 5 09:32:18 xena last message repeated 12 times
> Mar 5 09:33:23 xena last message repea
Slightly less annoying -- when no CD is in the drive, I'm getting:
Mar 5 09:30:42 xena kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Mar 5 09:31:17 xena last message repeated 7 times
Mar 5 09:32:18 xena last message repeated 12 times
Mar 5 09:33:23 xena last message repeated 13 time
I have a music play program (freeamp) playing MP3's running. It has the
feature in that it scans to see if a CD is in the drive and tries to look it up
in CDDB. Well, I don't have a CD in the drive -- I have a DVD-ROM with UDF file
system on it. Freeamp doesn't complain, but in my syslog/warnin
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