Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread David Balazic
LA Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further >developed > > > on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all >the > > > various bus and device types out there?

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: > > > support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further >developed > > on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the > > various bus and device types out there? > > You mean someone should write a libcdrom that

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
> support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further >developed > on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the > various bus and device types out there? You mean someone should write a libcdrom that handles stuff like that -

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and >recommended > > way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type' > > without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS? > > The answer to that could probably

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread Francis Galiegue
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > So I'm still wondering what the "approved and recommended" way for a program > to be "automatically" informed of a CD or floppy change/insertion and be able to > informed of media 'type' w/o kernel warnings/error messages. It sounds like > there is no

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
> Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and recommended > way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type' > without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS? The answer to that could probably fill a book unfortunately. You

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread LA Walsh
God wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app > > > --- > > > Must be more than one stupid app... > > > > Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and > > see if there is media in it > > Gnome

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread God
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app > > --- > > Must be more than one stupid app... > > Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and > see if there is media in it Gnome / KDE? does exactly that...

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread God
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and see if there is media in it Gnome / KDE? does exactly that... (rather

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread LA Walsh
God wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and see if there is media in it Gnome / KDE? does exactly

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and recommended way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type' without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS? The answer to that could probably fill a book unfortunately. You need

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread Francis Galiegue
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote: So I'm still wondering what the "approved and recommended" way for a program to be "automatically" informed of a CD or floppy change/insertion and be able to informed of media 'type' w/o kernel warnings/error messages. It sounds like there is no

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: Then it seems the less ideal question is what is the "approved and recommended way for a program to "poll" such devices to check for 'changes' and 'media type' without the kernel generating spurious WARNINGS/ERRORS? The answer to that could probably fill a book

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Cox
support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further developed on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the various bus and device types out there? You mean someone should write a libcdrom that handles stuff like that - quite

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further developed on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the various bus and device types out there? You mean someone should write a libcdrom that handles

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-06 Thread David Balazic
LA Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alan Cox wrote: support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further developed on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the various bus and device types out there? You

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app > > --- > > Must be more than one stupid app... > > Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and > see if there is media in it --- Is there some feature they *should* be

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread Alan Cox
> > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app > --- > Must be more than one stupid app... Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and see if there is media in it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Mar 05 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app > > --- > > Must be more than one stupid app... > > > > xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev > > package magicdev is not installed > > xena:/var/log# locate magicdev > > xena:/var/log# > >

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
LA Walsh wrote: > > > this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app > --- > Must be more than one stupid app... > > xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev > package magicdev is not installed > xena:/var/log# locate magicdev > xena:/var/log# > xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep -i magic >

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
> this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev package magicdev is not installed xena:/var/log# locate magicdev xena:/var/log# xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep -i magic ImageMagick-5.2.6-4 -- L A Walsh

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread Alan Cox
> Slightly less annoying -- when no CD is in the drive, I'm getting: > > Mar 5 09:30:42 xena kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) > Mar 5 09:31:17 xena last message repeated 7 times > Mar 5 09:32:18 xena last message repeated 12 times > Mar 5 09:33:23 xena last message

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
Slightly less annoying -- when no CD is in the drive, I'm getting: Mar 5 09:30:42 xena kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) Mar 5 09:31:17 xena last message repeated 7 times Mar 5 09:32:18 xena last message repeated 12 times Mar 5 09:33:23 xena last message repeated 13

Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
I have a music play program (freeamp) playing MP3's running. It has the feature in that it scans to see if a CD is in the drive and tries to look it up in CDDB. Well, I don't have a CD in the drive -- I have a DVD-ROM with UDF file system on it. Freeamp doesn't complain, but in my

Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
I have a music play program (freeamp) playing MP3's running. It has the feature in that it scans to see if a CD is in the drive and tries to look it up in CDDB. Well, I don't have a CD in the drive -- I have a DVD-ROM with UDF file system on it. Freeamp doesn't complain, but in my

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
Slightly less annoying -- when no CD is in the drive, I'm getting: Mar 5 09:30:42 xena kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) Mar 5 09:31:17 xena last message repeated 7 times Mar 5 09:32:18 xena last message repeated 12 times Mar 5 09:33:23 xena last message repeated 13

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread Alan Cox
Slightly less annoying -- when no CD is in the drive, I'm getting: Mar 5 09:30:42 xena kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) Mar 5 09:31:17 xena last message repeated 7 times Mar 5 09:32:18 xena last message repeated 12 times Mar 5 09:33:23 xena last message repeated

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev package magicdev is not installed xena:/var/log# locate magicdev xena:/var/log# xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep -i magic ImageMagick-5.2.6-4 -- L A Walsh

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
LA Walsh wrote: this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev package magicdev is not installed xena:/var/log# locate magicdev xena:/var/log# xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep -i magic

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Mar 05 2001, LA Walsh wrote: this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... xena:/var/log# rpm -q magicdev package magicdev is not installed xena:/var/log# locate magicdev xena:/var/log# xena:/var/log# rpm -qa |grep

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread Alan Cox
this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and see if there is media in it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages

2001-03-05 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: this isnt a kernel problem, its a _very_ stupid app --- Must be more than one stupid app... Could well be. You have something continually trying to open your cdrom and see if there is media in it --- Is there some feature they *should* be using instead