> I agree. Probably most of the problems I mentioned can be fixed, but > really, many of us don't want to open their shell and type two command > lines just in order to open their CD drives. The gnome file manager (Nautilus) ejects CDROMs automatically when you umount them by right clicking on a volume (or in the "Disks" section of the desktop right click menu).
That's just a KDE issue. There is a solution : you can just write a shell script : #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/eject /dev/cdrom Then change its permissions to let it be an executable : chmod u+x yourscript.sh And then put it on your desktop (copy it on the desktop or use a desktop launcher if you want it to have a nice icon+tooltip) or on a panel/dock. You can then use it when you want with a single/double click. Another solution again : you can configure your cdrom to auto-eject cdroms when you umount them. The setting is in /proc/sys/cdrom/autoeject. The default value in this file is O : no ejection. Change it to 1 and it's done. Maybe there will be problems with automounters if there is one enabled (it mounts and umounts removable media automatically when you put it on the drive). Maybe the automounter will decide to umount (and eject !) a cdrom after an amount of time of inactivity of the drive. Attention : the files in /proc aren't stored on the hard disk but are always recreated in ram. If you want to keep the setting at next boot, you'll have to add a line in the file /etc/sysctl.conf which should be : dev.cdrom.autoeject = 1 > Some things worked just fine, but others don't at all. I could select > and install my printer, but unfortunately it won't print - Linux says > it's printing, printer status is fine, but no printed page comes out. None of the documentation > gives me any hint on what to do if the proper procedure fails to work. I > tried to follow Sylvains HowTo on changing the keymap. Unfortunately, > the mac keymaps are unpacked (.gz), I couldn't unpack them as a normal > user, tried to do so as root, the whole system crashed and now even > won't start up again. Okay, probably I did everything wrong, but will > the average Mandrake user know better than myself how to deal with stuff > like this? I don't think so. I spent the whole day on this and didn't > make any substantial progress. Then the annoying thing with the cursor > jumping around, of which I don't have ANY idea on how to change it... You don't have to unpack the keymaps... Linux read them packed. Bertrand dekoninck.
