lucid: DVDs no longer accessible

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 12:09 +0100, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> 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

You guys nailed it. It now pops up and asks me what to do with the DVD.
Thanks! Ric