HAL ejects

Peter Backlund peter.backlund at home.se
Tue Jan 25 09:37:14 UTC 2005


tis 2005-01-25 klockan 11:01 +0200 skrev Paul Ionescu:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:48:56 +0100, Peter Backlund wrote:
> > Here's something I'd like to see in FC4: unmount-on-eject via HAL. I'm
> > talking about automatic unmounting CD/DVD when you press the eject button,
> > like the ancient "supermount". Is this within the scope of HAL?
> > 
> > /Peter
> 
> It is already in FC3 
> I am using it right now.
> I think it is not in HAL, but in GVM.
> However, to be able to use it, you have to disable "lock on mount" option
> of cdrom by "echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock"
> or putting "dev.cdrom.lock = 0" in /etc/sysctl.conf and reloading with
> sysctl -p.

Well, that's fantastic. Why isn't this enabled by default?

/Peter





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