From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Collier Subject: Re: Dell precision M50 and _very_ slow process startup Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:41:03 +0000 Sender: linux-laptop-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030113164103.G5472@comlab.ox.ac.uk> References: <200301131627.h0DGRX101413@rapfast.petcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200301131627.h0DGRX101413@rapfast.petcom.com>; from roe@petcom.com on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:27:32AM -0600 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:27:32AM -0600, Roe Peterson wrote: > I'm guessing that this process watches for cd insertion, changes > to home directory, et. al. Something like that. I think it's part of GNOME and is responsible for making sure there's a CD icon on the screen, or something. We had a different problem with this beast after installing RH6 some time ago. Every few seconds it would cause a spew of messages to the syslog reporting basically what we knew: there is no CD in the drive. It turned out though that these messages went away when the CD was properly reconfigured as a CD-writer by appending "hdc=ide-scsi" to the boot parameters. Not that this is at all relevant... Anyway, no I don't know much about it. imc