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[Diego Xirinachs <dxiri343@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just tried it and worked, opening the drive with the button on the laptop
will mess things up, do the launcher thing :D

THANKS!!

2009/11/24 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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