Is it possible to unmount and eject a cd in Linux simply by pressing the eject button on the drive?

Not sure if it can be done. It does not produce a keycode so that is not possible that way. Only thought is a script that you can place on the desktop and checks to see if mounted. If it is then it unmounts and runs the eject command to finish.

Brian

Yep, as far as I know the operating system is not aware of when the eject button is pressed, it's just aware of whether (sp?) or not the tray is out.

Okay. Now the other problem I have is that I can't always right click on my CD-Rom and click eject. It gives me a failed message. Then, when I go to the command line and su as root and then run eject /dev/hda it only ejects sometimes. Other times it tells me the device is busy and I then have to use fuser to find what process is using it and then kill it before I can use eject again. So my question is basically this: Why does processes still access the drive, how can I prevent this from happening and why can I sometimes eject from root without any problems but not when i right click on the drive?