lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 22 Jul 2010 11:57:15 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2010, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 Jul 2010 09:59:07 Ric Moore wrote:
> > > I think you mis-understood. Our DVD drives are just fine. But,
> > > in Lucid, if you put in a movie DVD you no longer get the popup
> > > asking you what to do with it ... K3B, Xine, Movie Player, etc.
> > > It no longer happens and I did a fresh install of Lucid. It's
> > > probably just something wacky somewhere. Otherwise, DVD's play
> > > just fine manually. Ric
> > 
> > Just a thought, is the device notifier running in your system
> > tray?
> 
> I think he means that HAL autostart popup, which is a separate window 
> and doesn't have anything to do with the device notifier.

Precisely, and the HAL autostart popup isn't going to work in Lucid, because Lucid has deprecated HAL in favour of udev.

Mark

> 
> Ric, if I'm right, this is done differently now. There's the device 
> notifier Mark mentioned, which - if put in the system tray - will pop 
> up whenever you attach a new storage device. You can than click on 
> the device to get a list of possible actions.
> 
>   --Reinhold
> 
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