Problems with Gnomes

[Derek D. Martin]

At some point hitherto, Thomas M. Albright hath spake thusly:
> I'm running RH 7.3 and Gnome 1.4. How can I stop nautilus from
> mounting the cd-rom everytime I insert a CD?

Easy: uninstall gnome/nautilus.  :)

But seriously...  I don't know if Nautilus has its own mechanism to
handle automatically mounting CDs seperate from that of gnome, but
there's a place to disable this behavior in the gnome control panel
under Peripherals/CD Properties.  Assuming the list allows
attachments, see the attached PNG.

Another way to do this, if you really don't like this behavior, is
simply uninstall the magicdev RPM.  This might not be a bad idea
anyway, as it polls your CD drive once a second.  I'm not sure about
the version that comes with gnome 1.4/RH 7.3, but some versions of
magicdev (and possibly all of them) can cause problems on certain
systems.  I don't remember the details, but the fix provided by Alan
Cox was to rpm -e magicdev.  Sure enough, that fixed it.

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