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DUR

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From: South Of Heaven

Registered: 2008-10-14

Posts: 2

[SOLVED]Gnome+udisks/devicekit+CD/DVD Drive Problem

Hello everyone, long time lurker, first time poster here!

I've been having a problem with my CD/DVD drives for some time now.

When I issue the eject command via shell or if I press the eject button the trey will only open for an instant and then close again.
if I run "udisks --inhibit-all-polling" the drive will let me open it normally.
Once a disk is inserted the system won't auto mount it though.(even after exiting the command mentioned above)
If I don't log in using Gnome(KDE instead) everything works fine.
But once I log in using Gnome the drive is all messed up until the next reboot.

So, I think its related to Gnome and udisks/device-kit.

It has been like this for more than six months.
udisks/device-kit has been updated several times since then and it never seems to fix anything.

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one with this oproblem.
Does anybody have any info on a fix for this?

I mean, this is basic functionality.
Even M$ can handle the freaking eject button! lol

edit: I should mention that other removable media like USB flash drives work as they should.

Last edited by DUR (2010-04-10 19:30:18)

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fabertawe

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From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 279

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome+udisks/devicekit+CD/DVD Drive Problem

Check out this thread and see if it helps -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87540

Last edited by fabertawe (2010-04-10 17:55:54)

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DUR

Member

From: South Of Heaven

Registered: 2008-10-14

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]Gnome+udisks/devicekit+CD/DVD Drive Problem

AH!

That did it... removed ide from the hooks in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

It's funny, I searched the forum but I don't remember seeing that particular thread.... strange.

Either I over looked it, or I need to go and re-learn how to search the web...

It's probably time to stop using the ide drivers, I don't think they are being maintained anymore anyway.

Thank you very much!

Last edited by DUR (2010-04-10 18:35:01)

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