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Dr.U

Member

From: Ettlingen, Germany

Registered: 2005-03-03

Posts: 68

cdrom: open failed ?

Well I decided to try installing the current kernel26 (2.6.13.4-3 or 2.6.13-ARCH, according to 'uname -r') using pacman. I also had to change to using udev. And -- it was much easier than I imagined! Great distro and great pacman tool!! 

Now when booting I see a new message (which also appears in dmesg along with the message about my cdrom given in the subject of this new topic). Here are the lines from dmesg:

   ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
   cdrom: open failed.
   Adding 1020088k swap on /dev/hda1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
   EXT3 FS on hdb5, internal journal
   cdrom: open failed.

My questions:

1. Why the first line (my machine is a PC tower with an LCD monitor, but nothing from Compaq and no touchscreen)?

2. Why "cdrom: open failed"? Is this something to be worried about or is it just telling me that I cannot eject CDs from within a program, but have to do it manually by pressing the little eject button on the cdrom drive?

Finally, I don't really notice much speed increase when booting now that hwdetect is activated and hotplug has been deactivated in rc.conf -- maybe I was just expecting too much or maybe the increase is only noticed when many more modules must be loaded than is the case on my box.  :?

Thanks in advance,

  -- Dr.U

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,225

Re: cdrom: open failed ?

ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output

I have seen that messages on and off on my pc, usually when something failed on shutdown or was not done right on startup.

The first happened mostly when rebooting after a pacman -Syu and was gone at the next boot.

After a while i interpreted the message as some kind of generic error, and checked the logs for errors.

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Dr.U

Member

From: Ettlingen, Germany

Registered: 2005-03-03

Posts: 68

Re: cdrom: open failed ?

Well, maybe the "compaq touchscreen" line is nothing serious, I just don't care to be running anything that I don't need to be running during boot-up or afterwards. Everything seems to be working just fine so I'm happy. 

The only current problem is that I'm on the road now and don't have a notebook or anything, so I'm stuck using windows machines at the local library to do my emailing... 

Can't wait to get back onto a computer with a really good OS: Arch!!

Regards,
  -- Dr.U