On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:27:29 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just wondering about something: I think you a very very confused as to what pieces of technology do what in the now hal-fied world. You also haven't stated which versions of the packages you are using. Its vital to state clearly which version of packages you have installed. In this case which version: hal dbus kudzu gnome-valume-manager gamin > But the mountpoints are still there - so according to gnome's "my > computer" - i now have tree floppy discs. According to gnome? how about according /etc/fstab? are the mountpoints under /media still there? Its important when trying to narrow down the problem if /etc/fstab and the /media mountpoints being updated correctly or not. Hal interacts with /etc/fstab and /media/ mountpints. The gnome filemanager,nautilus, should be noticing changes in /etc/fstab and updating the My Computer pane accordingly via the gamin daemon. But without knowing if /etc/fstab is updating correctly you can't know where in the software stack the problm actually is. Is this a hal problem? or is this a gnome problem? So far I don't have enough information to make a reasonable guess. > > So i decided to upgrade hal and dbus, just to see if anything happens. > "yum upgrade hal" and "yum upgrade dbus". Done. Log in (i was doing this > over ssh) to see the effects. Quite astonishing - it had "cleaned up" > all of my removable media stuff - ie. my cdrom, floppy, and all the > extra floppys are gone. Okay... So i try to "hotplug" a cd into the > drive. It spinns up for about a minute, and nothing happens. This is where the gnome-volume-manager comes in to play. You can configure gnome to either automount cds or not automount cds. Did you make sure gnome is configured to automount the cd? gnome-volume-properties is the command that corresponds to the Preference Menu item "Removable Storage." I have a development tree synced test box and when i have gnome configured to automount data cds... it worksforme. > I then try > to connect the camera. The usb activity light flashes a bit, but no new > mountpoints... Thats... bad. Again is gnome-volume-manager configured correct to mount removable drives/media? These are different setting than automounting cds in gnome-volume-propeties. And again automounting both my camera and my compact flash reader worksforme on my rawhide synced test box. > Maybe kudzu could make a difference. So i start kudzu. Kudzu is not invovled. In fact running kudzu while logged into X might have detrimental affects considering the hardware probing kudzu might be doing. And all it tries I will reinterate that automounting cds usb-storage devices on my test box fully updated to currently available development packages is working for me. -jef
