[Scottish] button

[Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant]

alright - i will have a look at that, but i suppose if it puts an
unnecessary load on the ressources, an icon will do.
Thanks,

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> From: 	Mike Quin[SMTP:m.r.quin@stir.ac.uk]
> Reply To: 	scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sent: 	16 June 2003 09:03
> To: 	scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: 	Re: [Scottish] button
> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:34:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Huard, Elise - D
> C&W Consultant wrote:
> 
> > on my home system, when linux is booted, when i press the button on
> either
> > of my CD/DVD drives, it doesn't react (doesn't open, anyway).
> > I wondered if a tweak was possible so that the button
> > 1. unmounts the filesystem, whatever it may be
> > 2. opens the wee drawer
> > maybe one of you has done it ?
> 
> This was discussed on linux-kernel many moons ago, and as I recall the
> only way you could do this is to poll the drive constantly to see if
> the button had been pressed. This was generally considered to be a bad
> thing to do, and as such was never implemented (at least in the
> mainstream kernel).
> 
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