On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Corvin Russell wrote:
I noticed this before when KDE had crashed and I had to shutdown from the console... And just now, while in KDE I did "shutdown -h now" while su'd. The funny thing is, when "Master Resource Control: Runlevel 0 has been reached" comes up, the CD is still playing, indefinitely. I'm not worried about this, just curious about it.
I assume you are talking about an audio CD. On most computers, when you tell it to play an audio CD, it actually just tells the CD to start playing and perhaps the the mixer about the volume. The rest is done in pure hardware. The CPU isn't even copying data from the CD drive to the sound card, as this is going through a special cable directly from the drive to the sound card. Unless some program specifically tells the CD to stop playing (or the sound card to mute) it will keep playing. Most CD-player programs tell the CD to stop playing when you close them, but some have an option to keep playing when you quit. Also, if the program crashes, it might not get to the point of stopping the CD. And so, when everything else has stopped and no programs are left running, the CD will keep playing. Regards Ole -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq