From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:32:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:32:17 -0500 Received: from mail.comlab.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.27.1]:10513 "EHLO mail.comlab.ox.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:32:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:41:03 +0000 From: Ian Collier To: linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell precision M50 and _very_ slow process startup Message-ID: <20030113164103.G5472@comlab.ox.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200301131627.h0DGRX101413@rapfast.petcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200301131627.h0DGRX101413@rapfast.petcom.com>; from roe@petcom.com on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:27:32AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: 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