Eject Button Not Working

[clevertomato]

linuxguiri what hardware do you have? My Dell Studio 1555 is still working fine with the Eject button and the screen brightness Fn keys.

[linuxguiri]

I also have a Studio 1555. Running Karmic 64. (Plus, the screen brightness keys don't work for me either.)

[nishant.singh28]

Aha!! You need to use "noapic" option. Google it.

[clevertomato]

I wish I could help you, but if my post on page 2 about adding noapic to your grub entry does not work, I don't have any other ideas. I hope you get it working.

[draki]

I have the same problem:

I have an Apple Aluminium keyboard - everything has worked perfectly until Ubuntu Lucid

Keyboard shortcuts all seem correct - XF86Eject - and 'eject' at the CLI works fine.

Pressing the key triggers a notification in the top-right of the screen, but no eject of the drive

Right clicking on the drive when a CD/ DVD is loaded allows me to eject it..

But for some unknown reason the keyboard button will not trigger the eject

any ideas?

[nishant.singh28]

I have the same problem:

I have an Apple Aluminium keyboard - everything has worked perfectly until Ubuntu Lucid

Keyboard shortcuts all seem correct - XF86Eject - and 'eject' at the CLI works fine.

Pressing the key triggers a notification in the top-right of the screen, but no eject of the drive

Right clicking on the drive when a CD/ DVD is loaded allows me to eject it..

But for some unknown reason the keyboard button will not trigger the eject

any ideas?

Did you try noapic?

[cphayes0914]

Try:

sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

dev.cdrom.lock=0

Thanks velophile for the advice, this problem has been bugging the hell out of me, that fix solved it.