On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:20:46AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: > I checked that. There IS some hald processes running.... but what > exactly does this mean? > > $ ps ax | grep hald > 2870 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald > 2871 ? S 0:00 hald-runner > 2877 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-acpi > 2886 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard > 2894 ? S 0:02 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage
hal is a hardware abstraction system for monitoring hotplug events of devices, and auto mounting new devices, telling the user (if running gnome or kde or something else hal/opendesktop aware) about the insertion to let them decide what to do. It has an annoying tendancy to very frequently ask the cd/dvd drive if there is a disk in there to mount uet, which causes problems for writing CD/DVD a lot of the time. It could potentially cause problems for DVD movies if the drive needs to be left alone to do CSS key lookups or something. > It IS a newer kernel. 2.6.16.14. I compiled it about 6 months ago and > it worked just fine from that time vis. CD/DVD tasks. Well try stopping hald. There is probably an init.d script you can call to stop it. > Already tried that. Tried growisofs as root from the command line. > Said there was no media present (there was). Try it again without hald running. Worth a try after all. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
