On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Since two days, I have a strange problem with my cdrom drive.
> UNDER KDE, the eject button on the cdrom drive does not work any more
> and all programs under KDE seem to not see that there
> is a CD in the drive ( except when I have inserted and
> mounted the CD before launching KDE )
>
> The funny thing is that happens only under KDE.
> The CD drive works correctly at the Linux prompt -- and under
> Windows too ...
>
> My system has been running for several months whithout
> any problems under Mandrake 6.1
>
> Have you any ideas about what did happen ?
> Hardware malfunction ?
> Some CDE config files corrupted ?
> Other ?
>
Didn't we JUST go through this on this list?? Maybe it was
the KDE list. The solutions is this: check to make sure you
don't have KSCD docked, or have the CDROM drive mounted.
This sounds like a typical problem you'll have when you
have a cdrom mounted, either for file purposes or for audio
purposes.
John
