cd/dvd & mouse

[jb]

I read fstab-sync man page again and it said I could disable it by 
linking to /bin/false which I tried and it said the file already exists 
so I added -f and ran the command to be sure. After farting around with 
the fstab file and running updatedb the cdrom seems to be working for a 
regular user. It is very tempermantal though. If I log in with a CD 
already in I get an error but if I throw a CD in it seems to work fine. 
The CD writer works fine as root and also with winblows. I think I'm 
going to reinstall FC3 at this point. Also the startup screen acts a 
little funny, there is an option to view details at startup but it goes 
back and forth between the old terminal view and the newer visual 
progress bar. I'm beginning to think this install is fubar and maybe 
later I'll try setting it up again.  Something isn't quite right, ( 
probably in my head though ), hehehe.
jb

Cyber Source wrote:

> Any entry in your fstab file that has the option "managed" will be 
> checked during boot by haldaemon. If it is found to be missing, etc., 
> it will take it out of the fstab file. Do a man of fstab-sync. I would 
> suspect that you might have something wrong with jumpers, cables or 
> maybe the drive is on the way out. Although, from the sounds of your 
> mouse etc, you might have a bad piece of memory. I've seen bad memory 
> do some really strange things. Just last week I had a bad piece of 
> memory doing all sorts of weird stuff, replaced it, all was well and 
> still is.
>
> jb wrote:
>
>> I think I have plenty of memory 786mb with 1.5gb swap plus the nvidia 
>> video card has 32mb of memory on it. I'm not through a network. I 
>> think the mouse hesitation is a cpu time sharing thing which I think 
>> the program nice lets you adjust but I might be wrong about that. The 
>> mouse hesitation only happens while I'm Opening multiple programs so 
>> the mouse being hesitant isn't a major problem. It would be nice to 
>> adjust it a little though. The cdrom not accessible is a problem. I 
>> tried the (hdparm /dev/hdc -d and it came up command not found? I did 
>> add user to the etc/fstab but no cigar. It also has
>> /dev/hdd  /media/cdrom  auto  pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>> /dev/hdc  /media/cdrecorder  auto  pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>> /dev/fd0  /media/floppy  auto  pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>> I used vi to edit user into the file but when I checked again user 
>> entries were gone and I saved them as root.
>> The fstab file says it has to be edited by fstab-sync?
>> jb
>>
>> Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think you wanna be messing around with I/O priorities. IRQ's 
>>> are
>>> set for a reason, and I don't think you should be messing with that, or
>>> if you can. I would suggest more memory, or possible a better video
>>> card. As far as sharing goes, is this through a network or on the same
>>> pc? Whatever you are doing, remember folder permissions are high above
>>> samba permissions. Even if you are sharing something as
>>> read/write/execute access through samba, if the folder permissions are
>>> only, r--r--r--, guess which overrules? Xdesktop waves look cool! 
>>> -Jesse
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:38, jb wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> When I'm opening multiple programs my mouse gets sluggish. I was 
>>>> wondering if there is a way to give it more cpu time or more 
>>>> priority? Would mouse priority be something (nice) can do and if 
>>>> that is the case how do I go about it? I'm also setting up a Fedora 
>>>> 3 box and I'm having difficulty getting my users access to my cd & 
>>>> dvd. Root has full access. I changed permission in users and groups 
>>>> but I still don't have permission as an average user.  I know it 
>>>> involves SELinux, I'm just not savvy enough with it to know the 
>>>> quick fix. I checked on the web for info on both problems and I 
>>>> didn't find much help.
>>>> Thanks in advance...
>>>> On a side note, has anyone tinkered with xdesktopwaves? If you want 
>>>> something unique for the desktop xdesktopwaves is it.
>>>> http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net/
>>>> jb
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