CD-ROM events not detected

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 12:30:44PM +0200, Dik Takken wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My HAL install (v. 0.4.5) is working perfectly, except for one thing: My 
> CD-ROM device is completely ignored. Manually mounting data CD-ROMS and 
> playing audio cd's works, but HAL does not seem to notice anything, 
> except changes to mtab due to mounting the device. When I run HAL like 
> so:
> 
> hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> 
> I can see that HAL detects USB / network / etc events, but when I insert 
> any audio or data CD-ROM into the drive, HAL keeps completely silent.
> 
> Could anyone please provide a hint to get this working?

Do you have a Dell laptop ? If so, hal ignores your drive on purpose. Polling
it on these kind of machines slows down the system (ide performance) a lot.

To double check see the storage.media_check_enabled poperty of your drive.

  Sjoerd
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