Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: That's what I tried. After I've inserted it and have the icon on my desktop, I get: r...@edwin:~# umount /dev/scd0 umount: /dev/scd0: not mounted r...@edwin:~# Yet the icon is on my desktop, and when I double click it, Nautilus open it. So what's controlling the device? It just occurred to me to do: r...@edwin:~# ps -ef | grep scd0 root 6521 6477 0 Jun14 ?00:01:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec) root 15023 14855 0 17:34 pts/500:00:00 grep scd0 r...@edwin:~# Any idea what hald-addon-storage is? That's the hardware abstraction layer device add on storage daemon. It's safe to kill, BTW. # kill -9 6521 remove device - enter device # dmesg # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM (or whatever the directory is) # mount If you want to have it mount automagically, add it to /etc/fstab Start back the hald-add-on-storage from the /etc/init.d/ directory. Lisa Kachold wrote: Alternately run mount/umount after determining the device /dev/scd0 device idea and status via dmesg. So, you will umount it #umount /dev/scd0 or # umount /mnt/CDROM (or wherever she is mounted) then # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net mailto:e...@shubes.net wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. To disable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 This allows the VM guest to access/control the device directly. To re-enable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling Kind of a screwy command if you ask me. FWIW, does anyone know of a gnome way to turn device polling off/on? That helps, but still no dice. Visduh (running under VMware Player 2.5.2) accesses a (commercial) data disk flawlessly, regardless of hal polling (on the Ubuntu host) being enabled or not. I suppose that's because Ubuntu doesn't know what to do with it, so it does nothing with/to it. I'm unable to access a (commercial) audio CD though. I tried stopping hal on the Ubuntu host, and that made things worse, as Visduh would hang. With hal running and polling disabled, Visduh acts as though there's nothing in the drive. /var/log/messages gives this hint (repeatedly) when trying to recognize the audio CD: Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761485] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761496] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761506] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761508] printk: 93 messages suppressed. Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766526] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766535] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766541] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 I've tried various audio CDs with the same result. Anyone have an idea? I've googled and found this error in other situations, but none so far with VMware player (which works fine with data, just not with audio CDs). -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
well you can sidestep and rip to ISO or some other application and then feed that data to vista On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Eric Shuberte...@shubes.net wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. To disable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 This allows the VM guest to access/control the device directly. To re-enable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling Kind of a screwy command if you ask me. FWIW, does anyone know of a gnome way to turn device polling off/on? That helps, but still no dice. Visduh (running under VMware Player 2.5.2) accesses a (commercial) data disk flawlessly, regardless of hal polling (on the Ubuntu host) being enabled or not. I suppose that's because Ubuntu doesn't know what to do with it, so it does nothing with/to it. I'm unable to access a (commercial) audio CD though. I tried stopping hal on the Ubuntu host, and that made things worse, as Visduh would hang. With hal running and polling disabled, Visduh acts as though there's nothing in the drive. /var/log/messages gives this hint (repeatedly) when trying to recognize the audio CD: Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761485] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761496] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761506] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761508] printk: 93 messages suppressed. Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766526] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766535] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766541] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 I've tried various audio CDs with the same result. Anyone have an idea? I've googled and found this error in other situations, but none so far with VMware player (which works fine with data, just not with audio CDs). -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
Yeah, thanks. I'm simply trying to rip an audio CD with Windoze media player. It's baffling though why data CDs work and audio CDs don't. Stephen wrote: well you can sidestep and rip to ISO or some other application and then feed that data to vista On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Eric Shuberte...@shubes.net wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. To disable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 This allows the VM guest to access/control the device directly. To re-enable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling Kind of a screwy command if you ask me. FWIW, does anyone know of a gnome way to turn device polling off/on? That helps, but still no dice. Visduh (running under VMware Player 2.5.2) accesses a (commercial) data disk flawlessly, regardless of hal polling (on the Ubuntu host) being enabled or not. I suppose that's because Ubuntu doesn't know what to do with it, so it does nothing with/to it. I'm unable to access a (commercial) audio CD though. I tried stopping hal on the Ubuntu host, and that made things worse, as Visduh would hang. With hal running and polling disabled, Visduh acts as though there's nothing in the drive. /var/log/messages gives this hint (repeatedly) when trying to recognize the audio CD: Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761485] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761496] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761506] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761508] printk: 93 messages suppressed. Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766526] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766535] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766541] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 I've tried various audio CDs with the same result. Anyone have an idea? I've googled and found this error in other situations, but none so far with VMware player (which works fine with data, just not with audio CDs). -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. To disable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 This allows the VM guest to access/control the device directly. To re-enable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling Kind of a screwy command if you ask me. FWIW, does anyone know of a gnome way to turn device polling off/on? That helps, but still no dice. Visduh (running under VMware Player 2.5.2) accesses a (commercial) data disk flawlessly, regardless of hal polling (on the Ubuntu host) being enabled or not. I suppose that's because Ubuntu doesn't know what to do with it, so it does nothing with/to it. I'm unable to access a (commercial) audio CD though. I tried stopping hal on the Ubuntu host, and that made things worse, as Visduh would hang. With hal running and polling disabled, Visduh acts as though there's nothing in the drive. /var/log/messages gives this hint (repeatedly) when trying to recognize the audio CD: Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761485] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761496] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761506] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.761508] printk: 93 messages suppressed. Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766526] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready [current] Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766535] sr 0:0:0:0: [sr0] Device not ready: Add. Sense: No reference position found Jun 22 17:51:44 edwin kernel: [268573.766541] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 I've tried various audio CDs with the same result. Anyone have an idea? I've googled and found this error in other situations, but none so far with VMware player (which works fine with data, just not with audio CDs). Here are some other hints from the VMware log. Jun 22 17:49:29.552: vcpu-0| CDROM ide0:0: Allowing unknown command *UNKNOWN (0xac)* (0xac). --ok Jun 22 17:49:29.552: vcpu-0| CDROM: Unknown command 0xAC. Jun 22 17:49:29.552: vcpu-0| CDROM ide0:0: CMD 0xac (*UNKNOWN (0xac)*) FAILED (key 0x5 asc 0x20 ascq 0) Jun 22 17:49:29.552: vcpu-0| CDROM ide0:0: Allowing unknown command *UNKNOWN (0xac)* (0xac). --ok Jun 22 17:49:29.552: vcpu-0| CDROM: Unknown command 0xAC. Jun 22 17:49:29.552: vcpu-0| CDROM ide0:0: CMD 0xac (*UNKNOWN (0xac)*) FAILED (key 0x5 asc 0x20 ascq 0) Jun 22 17:49:29.558: mks| MKS switching absolute mouse on Jun 22 17:49:29.563: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 0 Jun 22 17:49:29.563: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 30 Jun 22 17:49:29.563: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 31 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 32 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 33 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 35 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 36 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 38 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 42 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 43 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 45 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 46 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 47 Jun 22 17:49:29.564: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 64 Jun 22 17:49:29.565: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 65 Jun 22 17:49:29.565: vcpu-0| CDROM: Emulate GET CONFIGURATION RT 0 start feature 80 Jun 22 17:49:29.565: vcpu-0| CDROM:
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
Alternately run mount/umount after determining the device /dev/scd0 device idea and status via dmesg. So, you will umount it #umount /dev/scd0 or # umount /mnt/CDROM (or wherever she is mounted) then # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
That's what I tried. After I've inserted it and have the icon on my desktop, I get: r...@edwin:~# umount /dev/scd0 umount: /dev/scd0: not mounted r...@edwin:~# Yet the icon is on my desktop, and when I double click it, Nautilus open it. So what's controlling the device? It just occurred to me to do: r...@edwin:~# ps -ef | grep scd0 root 6521 6477 0 Jun14 ?00:01:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec) root 15023 14855 0 17:34 pts/500:00:00 grep scd0 r...@edwin:~# Any idea what hald-addon-storage is? Lisa Kachold wrote: Alternately run mount/umount after determining the device /dev/scd0 device idea and status via dmesg. So, you will umount it #umount /dev/scd0 or # umount /mnt/CDROM (or wherever she is mounted) then # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net mailto:e...@shubes.net wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh
Eric Shubert wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert the CD, Ubuntu delightfully and magically puts the Audio CD icon on my desktop, and launches the Sound Juicer. Ubuntu takes possession of the CD device, and Visduh waits for access. I can't seem to figure out how to get Ubuntu to release the device so that VMware/Visduh can access it. Once I eject the disc from Ubuntu, Visduh stops waiting for the device. When Ubuntu has access to the CDrom device, there's no entry in /etc/mtab, so the device isn't mounted by conventional means. Can someone fill me in on where to look to find out what Ubuntu's using to access the CDrom, and how I can get it to release (umount?) the da*m thing without ejecting it? TIA. To disable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 This allows the VM guest to access/control the device directly. To re-enable: # hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling Kind of a screwy command if you ask me. FWIW, does anyone know of a gnome way to turn device polling off/on? -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
