> I came across a strange problem today. I (accidentally) opened the cd/dvd > player of my thinkpad w500 laptop. Once the player is opened, it is > impossible to close it, as it is immediately reopened. > > Dmesg is flawed with the following messages: > acpithinkpad0: unknown type 3 event 0x006 > > Any ideas on how I can solve the problem?
does the event log at the opening or closing of the drive? if you disable the acpithinkpad device (boot -c) does the drive work properly?
