Gentle folks, Recently I installed RH 7.1 as the fresh installation. It is KDE/Gnome workstation. Well, I have discovered that almost whenever a GUI is starting (either at system boot or with startx), there is a point where GUI's panel should be initialized. On that point, my CDROM looks like it expects a disk to be inserted, i.e. a lamp of the CDROM drive is blinking a couple of times and sometimes a sound of its motor can be heard for a moment. It lasts for a 5-6 seconds and when it is finished, I finally get the panel so can use the GUI. Sometimes, I don't get a panel at all, so I can't use GUIs and I have to kill it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspc. When I kill it, I get an info that ATAPI on /dev/hdb (that is CDROM) has some accessing problem or so. The only cure is to reboot the system. I have found a tool called magicdev that looked to me to make problems and I have deinstalled it. But, I still have the same problem often. Actually, whenever I boot/start into a GUI as root, I get a warning: =============================================== magicdev Not response to the Save Yourself command. The program may be slow, stopped or broken. You may wait for it to respond or remove it. Remove Program / Cancel =============================================== Even I click on Remove Program, next time I start GUI there is another warning like that. Before 7.1 I used 6.2 without such a problem. My CDROM is LG CRD-8240B. Any help? Misko _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
