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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: CD-ROM drive won't open
From:       "G.W.M. Vissers" <vissers () theochem ! kun ! nl>
Date:       1999-09-29 7:32:55
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Hmm, that seemed to work. Killing two kscd's helped opening the drive
again. Thanks!

> I had this problem, too. It was driving me crazy and I even started to think
> that my cdrom is broken and I should replace it .
> Then I discovered that KDE CD Player was started each time I logged into KDE
> (because of session management) :-). When cdrom had no CD in it, the
> CDPlayer was desperately trying to access it (every one secon, or maybe more
> frequently), thus locking it :-).
> So all you have to do is close CD Player (look for its icon in KPanel dock
> area), and take care to close it each time before you close KDE.
> 
> XXL.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: G.W.M. Vissers <vissers@theochem.kun.nl>
> To: KDE general mailing list <kde@lists.netcentral.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:35 PM
> Subject: CD-ROM drive won't open
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using KDE 1.1.1 for a couple of weeks now, and I like it. I have
> one problem, however. Every time I start KDE my CD-ROM drive won't open
> when I want to play music CD's (and no, it's not because I've mounted a
> CD-ROM). When I close KDE and return to text console everything works
> again. Has anyone experienced this or have a clue about what causes this
> behaviour. I'd greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Gé
> 
> 
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