Hi ruzzmon,
I just tried a few things - first, running hald in --verbose=yes mode. I get a ton of printouts scrolling past whenever I plug in or unplug anything. But it's completely silent when I put in a CD, open up the Gnome CD player app, and play it.
Then I ran lshal. It detected 39 (!) devices. But it looks like it does have some information about my CD drive, but just lists it as "IDE device (master)" - doesn't mention anything about it being a CD drive.
Here's what I think is the relevant section from the lshal output. Do you get something significantly different?
Code:
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_1_0'
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_1_0' (string)
info.product = 'IDE device (master)' (string)
ide.channel = 0 (0x0) (int)
ide.host = 1 (0x1) (int)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_host_1' (string)
ide.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide1/1.0' (string)
linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide1/1.0' (string)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide1/1.0' (string)
info.bus = 'ide' (string)