On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:20:55AM -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > But I'm running KDE. Does anyone have any idea what in KDE might be > probing the CDROM all the time? Yes, KDE has a helper daemon that tries to mount/umount the drives for the user that's logged in. It may be probing the drive when you click on the cdrom icon. It's also possible that you may have a status indicator widget/applet of some kind that's checking these things. Examine the programs that you're running. Kill one for a while. Watch your logs. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020206/c3577f92/attachment.pgp