Re: [gnome-devel] Re: Autodetect CD

[Reginald Johnson <reginald johnson cox net>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:

> Reginald Johnson wrote:
>
> > Sean,
> >     Thanks for the help.  I finally just resorted to a thread that
> > routinely checks to see if there is anything in the drive.  Too bad
> > there doesn't appear to be a more elegant solution.
>
>
> Again, use HAL.  It is quite elegant, and Just Works(tm).  Plus, as 
> its ported to new OSs or gets support for new devices, they will also 
> just work.  'Bout as clean and simple as it gets.  You can resort to 
> polling for "legacy" systems that don't have HAL.
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HAL seems to be what I'm looking for, but I Googled, and wasn't able to 
turn up much documentation about how to program to take advantage of 
it.  Do you have any good links to tutorials/examples?

Reggie