[NTLUG:Discuss] Any way to unlock a locked device?

[David Stanaway]

Do you have the Audio out from the CDROM Drive connected to the CD jack 
on the sound card?

I haven't had to mess with that in ages since I hardly play audio CDs 
anylonger, and maybe all new drives are designed to be played digitally 
rather than using the internal digital-analog hardware.

It has been a while since I saw a volume control on the front of a CD.

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Found a partial solution to my CD Player quest: Grip, it's apparently an 
> old (and probably not maintained) player but it does have a rather 
> simple implementation of "play the tracks you want directly from CD" and 
> it is installable via SuSE 10.3's Yast (apparently someone else has a 
> reason for keeping it around).
>
> It has it's issues, sometimes it stalls on reading the CDROM, it locked 
> up on me once so far.  I was able to kill it while in KDE but the lock 
> on the CD drive didn't go away.
>
> Tried ejecting as root - no response.
> Logged out - no help.
> Finally rebooted which worked but reminded me of an OS I would rather 
> not remember.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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