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

[terry]

grip has been around a long time, may not be maintained anymore I don't know
for sure but could be that it just doesn't need any maintenance,  but grip
has always worked flawlessly for me.  I've used it to rip and just to play
CDs too. Now-days, I just rip all my music into mp3s

dcd is a simple command-line CD player, you might want to try that one too.
There are a lot of CD players and using different ones might help you with
more clues.  Which ever one you use, I would run them from command line so
that you can see what ever standard output the various players might give
you - you could possibly tell some more about this problem by seeing system
logs or command line output.
... Could be a hardware problem.


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
> 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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