Re: [gnome-devel] Re: Autodetect CD

["Pedro M. (Morphix User)" <pmacv telefonica net>]

Reginald Johnson escribió:

> If there isn't a method to do this, how are media players such as XMMS 
> able to accomplish somthing similar?  They don't seem to be running in 
> the background so they can't be resorting to polling the CD.  Any 
> ideas how they are able to do this?
>
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 21:17 -0400, Reginald Johnson wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >    I'm trying to make my autodetect CD insertions.  I'm using C, 
> > > GTK, and Gnome on a Fedora system, but I don't think the 
> > > distribution should matter in this instance.  What signal do I have 
> > > to capture from Gnome to tell my app to check to see if a new CD has 
> > > been inserted in the drive?   
> >
> >
> > There is no current such mechanism, unfortunately.  In the future,
> > gnome-volume-manager may provide this information.  It does automatic
> > mounting and such (for systems with HAL).  See the Project Utopia list
> > (utopia-list gnome org).
> >
> >  
> >
> > > Or is there another technique I should be using?
> > >    Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Reginald Johnson
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Try Kudzu

See

http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?HardwareAutodetection

Regards.