Apple media keyboard eject key only opens cd tray, doesn't close it

[plush]

The apple media keyboard key opens the tray nicely on my Powermac G5, new world, but won't close it. It displays the nice ejection graphic similar to OSX's. I can, however, close the tray in xterm by typing "eject -t".

[plush (plush)]

I've heard that upgrading the eject module to 2.1.4 may help, since it's switch "-T", opens the tray if closed and closes if open. But I haven't been able to verify this on a PPC.

[Phillip Calvin (phillipc)]

Under eject 2.0.13, it closes the tray fine. However, once it closes the tray, it opens again. This seems to have something to do with eject's -a (automatic) option and GNOME auto-mounting the media. Has anyone else seen this problem? Dapper on a G4.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Please update to a newer version of eject, that supports the --toggle
option.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

In gconf, /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/eject_command should be
/bin/eject -T. After a new upstream version of eject, of course.

[Timothy Smith (tas50)]

Can you test this on Edgy RC so we can see if this problems still exists?

[plush (plush)]

Yes unfortunately the problem is still there. The tray opens, but won't
close, displaying a square with an icon that I assume should be an eject
symbol, but with a red X instead of the correct picture. I have to
manually type "eject -t" to close the tray.

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 21:11 +0000, Timothy Smith wrote:
> Can you test this on Edgy RC so we can see if this problems still
> exists?
>

[didier (did447-deactivatedaccount)]

Still there with feisty

The problem is that ioctl(fd, CDROMEJECT) always return EIO even when it works so eject -T doesn't try to call ioctl (fd, CDROMCLOSETRAY)

Maybe it's only a Mac linux kernel issue (timeout or sense code).

[didier (did447-deactivatedaccount)]

A work around, at least on feisty, is to disable the cd key in gnome shortcut and let pbbuttonsd do the right thing.

[Andrew Flegg (aflegg)]

This also affects non-Apple hardware using an eject key.

gnome-volume-manager no longer (in Feisty) supports the eject_command key, and gnome-mount is hardcoded to use "eject". However, it doesn't specify a path.

Therefore a workaround is to have an executable shell script in your path ahead of /usr/bin, called 'eject' containing '/usr/bin/eject -T'.

gnome-mount should be fixed, however, to either pass -T or be customisable.

[Florian Schröck (mael-reverted)]

the bug is still present in gutsy, this is very annoying

[Alex Lowe (lengau)]

Just a note: eject -T does NOT close the drawer on my system.

$ eject -Tv hdc
eject: device name is `hdc'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdc' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdc' is a multipartition device
eject: toggling tray
ioctl: Input/output error

[Andrew Flegg (aflegg)]

See also #91873 for a patch to ignore the "tray open" error when trying to close the tray.

[Brad Jensen (bradwjensen)]

I have Hardy Heron (Alpha 6) with 'Eject 2.1.5' installed and the tray doesn't close for me on my new slim apple keyboard.

- Why are all these small, yet, quality details taking forever to fix?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

BradwJensen [2008-03-13 18:11 -0000]:
> - Why are all these small, yet, quality details taking forever to fix?

Because we do not have all the hardware in the world, so that we could
do it ourselves. :/

[Belcirelk (beliveau)]

see Bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eject/+bug/91873 for a solution. It works for me on a intel Mac with USB alu keyboard.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

As mentioned by others, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eject/+bug/91873 may be the same issue. It would be great if someone with an apple media keyboard could verify that the updated eject package in hardy-proposed does or does not address the issue for those keyboards. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Brad Jensen (bradwjensen)]

@Steve Beattie

I have the Slim USB Aluminum Mac Keyboard (new version). I have -proposed allowed and recently did an Update of regular system items. Now the Eject media key both opens and closes the disc drive. Before the update it would only open the drive.

Now that it works for me, I was wondering how I get it to open my other Disc Drive rather than the one it does open (I have two disc drives and only my bottom one opens with the media key.)