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[Dan LeVasseur <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rather than dinking around with a terminal window, you can just create a
launcher that runs the command "eject cdrom", give it a nice Icon and put it
on the panel.  Just click it once to eject the disc.

-Dan

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Diego Xirinachs <dxiri343@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> thanks for replies, for some reason I didnt receive the notification of
> your post, but I just replied to the thread and I will sure try it out as
> soon as I can. I think that could be a good solution.
>
> 2009/11/24 Miguel Branco <mig.jcb@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I replied with my fix on this thread:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1331627
>> Did you try that?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 20:12, Diego Xirinachs <dxiri343@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Definetly WONT try that solution then...lol, any other suggestions? its
>>> really critical to have a working CD/DVD drive in my opinion...
>>>
>>> 2009/11/23 Sean Russell <seanerussell@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> I've been having the same problem on a 4810T, but I'm glad to see other
>>>> people are having the same problem (misery loves company).
>>>>
>>>> I actually did a dpkg reconfigure as recommended on one of the Ubuntu
>>>> docs in an attempt to fix the CD, and it screwed up *everything*; the
>>>> intel graphics driver stopped working correctly, networking went out the
>>>> window.  Anyway, crippling regressions as a result of upgrading Ubuntu no
>>>> longer surprise me.  I haven't gotten the laptop back to it's full, working
>>>> state, but the one thing that refuses to work at all any more is the CD.
>>>>
>>>> Hooray for quality control, eh?
>>>>
>>>> --- SER
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Diego Xirinachs <dxiri343@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My drive is inaccesible everytime, but still shows up on ubuntu, but
>>>>> double clicking does nothing, doesnt matter If I have a cd inserted or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/11/23 Stefan Tjarks <stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I do have the same problem coming up occasional on my 4810T. Specially
>>>>>> when using DVD-RAMs. Reading or writing a disc fails and then the
>>>>>> device
>>>>>> is gone out of Karmic. Need to restart and remove the disc to be able
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> use it again. I gave up using DVD-RAMs with my laptop!
>>>>>> Sometimes when inserting a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM the drive is
>>>>>> inaccessible.
>>>>>> I managed to work around it buy rebooting with the disc in the drive.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> remember once were I needed to burn multiple DVDs and had to reboot
>>>>>> after each burn because the drive simple failed to show the new blank
>>>>>> disc. It's bloody annoying!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:04 -0600, Diego Xirinachs wrote:
>>>>>> > hi all,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I installed ubuntu on my laptop without any problems, I can also
>>>>>> > remember that the drive USED TO work fine, but now (I think it was
>>>>>> > after upgrade) It wont read any CD that I put in it, I checked the
>>>>>> > group permission and I do have permissions to use cdrom drives, no
>>>>>> > Idea how to proceed from now on, I really need to burn some cds for
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> > stuff we need at work so I desperately need the drive working.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks in advance for the help.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > 2 things to note:
>>>>>> > - I installed jaunty on the laptop and recently upgraded to karmic
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > -The cdrom indeed shows on "My computer" but when I double click it
>>>>>> > does nothing (obviously with a cd in it)
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I have this same problem posted on a thread on ubuntu forums If you
>>>>>> > want to reply there, here is the
>>>>>> > link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1331627
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks in advance for the help, If you need more info just ask.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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