Re: IBook 2001 Combo Drive/Audio CD

[olivier.grisel@ensta.org]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Chris Wenn wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm having some unusual problems with the drive on my iBook - any
>operation involving the drive in KDE (including with Gnome or GTK
>programs) causes the drive to eject - so if I go to copy a CD using
>CDBakeOven or even XCDRoast, or rip an audio CD to ogg or mp3 the drive
>opens. Unless I have a file manager window open at audiocd:/ the drive
>will open again and again. Same with trying to play the cd in xmms or
>kscd. However, even if I do have audiocd:/ open I can't play audio from
>the cd, as I get no sound. This happens with any media player, including
>command-line variants like cdcd (which appears to crash out, in any case)
>

I had several times the same behaviour but I don't really know what the
actual cause of it. However I noticed with pstree that pbbuttonsd whas
the daemon launching continuously the eject command. So I restarted it
an everything was in order. Maybe a pbbuttonsd bug ?

Best
Olivier