Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:47:09 +0000 | From | Mike Keehan <> | Subject | Re: strange behavior on multimedia eject button for cdrom |
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Hi Harold.
Somewhere on the web I read that some of the M1330 media keys are directly connected to the drive, hence the lack of keycodes.
If you eject a disk while it is being played, then the Linux driver will get a read failure. What happens then may not be well defined :)
Mike.
Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > My laptop (Dell XPS M1330) has some multimedia keys added to the > keyboard, including an eject button for the cdrom drive, instead > of a "regular" eject button built into the drive itself. > > When I press it to eject a CD, then Linux becomes pretty mad: The > audio device gets stuck somehow, playing the same tune over and > over again, the network connection is frozen, etc. Once the CD is > out it is back to normal, as it seems. > > I would guess that the eject button triggers some bios functionality, > outside of the control of the kernel. But is it? How comes that > Linux seems to loose control in this case? > > Kernel is 2.6.24.2 (amd64). > > AFAICS this eject button has no keycode. The other multimedia keys > have. > > > Any helpful idea would be very welcome. > > > Regards > > Harri > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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