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Re: CDROM door button on keyboard



On Sep 27 2002, William C Brennan wrote:
> How do I make the cdrom eject/open button work with Debian? 

	You should install the "eject" package, which works to eject
	floppy disks and CDs alike.

> Certainly other people must have run into this problem?  I searched
> the mailing list archives and came up empty.

	Did you read the last few days of traffic? There was a thread
	for ejecting floppy disks, which works for CDs.

	Just when I was going to post the information two people beat
	me to it (regarding the eject command and the open firmware
	method -- I didn't know about the third way). :-)


	[]s, Roger...

P.S.: Depending on the GUI you use, you can associate some buttons on
the keyboard with, say, eject to simulate MacOS's behaviour.
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