Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:31:02 -0800 | From | LA Walsh <> | Subject | Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages |
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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 / KDE? does exactly that... (rather annoying too) .. what app > specificaly I don't know... --- 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 kernel support for this so far?
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?
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