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Re: I would like to eject my cdrom



JoeHill wrote: 

> I don't care if 'an appication is preventing' or whatever, I want to damned
> cdrom to eject. I cannot believe that my hardware is being overridden by
> software. When I hit the eject button, I really don't give a rat's ass what
> someone thinks about it, I want it to eject.
> 
> How can I regain control of this?

In this specific situation, where I was trying to install a 2 disc game through
Wine, it turns out there's a 'wine eject' command, and that will override
whatever mojo Gnome and Linux are using on me ;)

-- 
J


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