[Bug 146779] Disabling hal cdrom polling breaks functionality

[trollord]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: libnautilus-burn-dev

Reading http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/disks.php it is really worth it to
disable hal cdrom polling as it prevents the power saving (important for
laptops) from working properly.

However when you do this hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 it leads
into the cd/dvd image burning application to fail. It will keep asking
for the user to insert a disc for writing even when one is already
inserted.

I think that when I unplug my laptop from AC power the polling should be
automatically disabled. Furthermore the cd burning application should be
more intelligent (enable the polling if it was disabled and the user
wants to burn a disc, and disable it again afterwards perhaps). This
would require small touches to several packages (libnaulitus-burn?,
hal?), and preferably upstream.

** Affects: nautilus-cd-burner (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Disabling hal cdrom polling breaks functionality
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146779
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