On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 18:31 -0500, max wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have an iRiver MP3 player. Previously, when I have attached it to my > >> Fedora system, it has been automatically recognised and mounted and an > >> icon has appeared on the desktop. > >> > >> Just now when I plugged it in, I didn't get any of that happening. I > >> still got the following messages in /var/log/messages > > > > [ snip ] > > > >> And I can still get access to the player by manually mounting > >> /dev/sdc5 to the appropriate directory. But it used to be an automatic > >> process and I'd like to get that functionality back. > >> > >> I recently did a clean installation of Fedora 8 onto this system. I'm > >> pretty sure that it has worked since the upgrade (but I can't be 100% > >> sure of that). > > > > This gets weirder. This morning I rebooted the system, and everything > > started working fine. When I plugged in the iRiver it was > > automatically mounted and an icon appeared on the desktop. > > > > When I got home this evening and tried again, it had stopped working. > > It was behaving the same way as I described yesterday. The computer > > has been on all day with no-one using it. > > > > Not sure what is going on. > > > > Dave... > > > > Are you sure the iRiver isn't failing? Does it work well when attached > to another computer? I'd plug it into a different machine ( more than > once) to make sure it performs as expected on a consistent basis. Are > you always plugging into the same USB port? have you tried others? What > other troubleshooting have you done? This might sound lame, but was the iRiver turned on before plugging it in? I think that is the way it has to happen. Or, turn it off, plug it in, then turn it on. See what gives. Something would work all the time I would think ...but I've been proved wrong before! Just a thought while trouble shooting with a shotgun, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
