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Dapper: 'Supported Features' in disks-admin gives wrong info about DVD-ROM

Bug #45241 reported by seanh
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T21 currently running the Dapper Beta. Hardware info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeanHammond?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=taptaplshw.html

The 'Supported Features' dialog of disks-admin for my DVD-ROM (MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8175 /dev/hdc) has all 6 features marked with red circles, including two that my drive does support: Play Audio and Read DVD.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

That seems very strange. What number does this command output:
python -c "import os, fcntl; f = os.open('/dev/hdc', os.O_RDONLY|os.O_NONBLOCK, 0); print fcntl.ioctl(f, 0x5331, 0);"
?

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seanh (seanh) wrote : Re: [Bug 45241] Re: Dapper: 'Supported Features' in disks-admin gives wrong info about DVD-ROM

It outputs 3710959

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:52:57PM -0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> That seems very strange. What number does this command output:
> python -c "import os, fcntl; f = os.open('/dev/hdc', os.O_RDONLY|os.O_NONBLOCK, 0); print fcntl.ioctl(f, 0x5331, 0);"
> ?
>
> --
> Dapper: 'Supported Features' in disks-admin gives wrong info about DVD-ROM
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/45241
>

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Could you attach a screenshot of the dialogue (Alt-PrintScreen).

Regarding bug #45242, which was reported afterwards (that both icons are the same shape, coloured Red and Green and that you are Red/Green colour-blind this might be useful to confirm the bug; (although that may just be incidental).

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

The number give indicates the drive said it could read DVDs and CDs but couldn't write them so a screenshot would be very interesting...

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seanh (seanh) wrote : screenshot.png

Added screenshot of the culprit dialog.

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seanh (seanh) wrote :

If you tell me some of those circles are actually green I'll be laughing out loud.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Let's just say I think we should up the severity on bug #45242 ...

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seanh (seanh) wrote :

You're kidding? Obviously, you aren't. But I have a fairly mild form of colour-blindness, and I'm staring at those icons really closely, and I cannot make out a difference. Bug #45242 is very severe indeed for colour-blind people.

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seanh (seanh) wrote :

It can't be just the fact of red and green icons, the particular shades must be very similar. This is hilarious.

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seanh (seanh) wrote :

Somebody should close this bug report or something, I don't think I have permission.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

"Play Audio" and "Read DVD" are green, marking as duplicate of the bug #45242 then

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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