I only occasionally bother to watch a dvd on my pc. But when I do I like to be able to eject the dvd when I'm done. Sometimes I have another use for the DVD drive. {such as burning some iso image perhaps} And sometimes I merely want to put away the DVD.

I Personally I think the most I should have to do is to click on the stop button, and then press the eject button on the drive. But it would be only a mild irritation to have to terminate the media player
{In this case file->quit}
to get it to let go of the drive so that I could remove the DVD. But last night my buddy asked that I return the borrowed DVD that I'd been watching. But the dvd tray would not open even after I"quit" gxine. So I spent a few minutes closing the assorted files I had open with vim in various xterms etc... Then I rebooted antiX. Only to find that the drive still wouldn't open. I don't know that it matters, but it was a home burned video made on my buddy's living room dvd recorder, which he had used to preserve some vhs tapes.

In order to eject the DVD, I had to reboot again, and hit the dvd drive's eject button while the bios initialized. Then, when I booted antiX it locked up early during the boot cycle in such a way that I hadn't seen it do since I added noapic to the kernel args to combat the bios bug 8254 (about some timer not being connected) that it used to complain about.

Is there a root command that would force the DVD"lock?" to disengage after viewing a DVD with gxine so that I can eject the DVD manually ???