On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Isaac Richards wrote:
>
> On 13-Jul-2000 Mo DeJong wrote:
> > This happens because I have a DVD in the drive. My question
> > is, why does freeamp keep trying to access the CD? It seems
> > like it should give up after a couple attempts. This is
> > really lame under Linux because this msg gets sent to
> > all my console terminals over an over again. I am sure
> > how you can see how that would make it hard to use
> > the computer :)
>
> It's polling the cd for changes so that the tree in the browser is updated
> automatically.. It's not doing anything but asking for the layout of tracks
> on the disc. No better way to do it, really. If you're getting kernel
> messages from it, I'd recommend upgrading to a newer kernel w/ better dvd
> support..
>
> Or, if you don't use the CD playing capabilities, you could just remove cd.pmo
> from your plugins dir, and it'll quit polling the drive.
Does it really need to poll it so often? Why not make this an
option that I can disable in the prefs? I do not even use the
CD drive for my MP3s. Would this cause problems if I was
ripping a CD and playing some MP3 file off the network at
the same time?
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
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