On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Joerg Schilling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >> Would a HAL preprobe FDI like this prevent it from interfering with
>> >> burning?
>> >
>> > Could you explain what this means?
>>
>> I was just thinking if HAL is instructed to ignore the device maybe it
>> won't bother it any more (if that's even the cause of Dale's problem).
>> Not a fix but a workaround. Maybe not even a workaround. :)
>
> I have been told that this could work but I have no idea on how to do this.
Create a file in /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/ containing these contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="storage.drive_type" string="cdrom">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Then reboot (or maybe restart HAL is enough). It should hopefully make
HAL completely ignore the cdrom device. (maybe edit to match your
specific device)
