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On Saturday 16 April 2011 18.31:50 Duncan wrote: |
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> Dan Johansson posted on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:56:33 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> > On Saturday 16 April 2011 14.39:23 Yohan Pereira wrote: |
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> >> On Saturday 16 Apr 2011 06:06:18 PM Dan Johansson wrote: |
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> >> > Any suggestions on how to bring knotify4 to recognize an inserted |
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> >> > CD/DVD/USB- Disk (without HAL). |
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> >> have you enabled the udev use flag? for eg. on kdelibs et al. |
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> > Yes, udev is enabled (and I have recompiled kdelibs, solid and knotify a |
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> > few times today while experimenting). |
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> You don't mention what kde version. |
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> kde 4.6.0 was the first to switch away from hal. If you're running |
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> previous to that, you need hal for detection. |
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> I don't know why (perhaps an issue with policykit or dbus interfering, or |
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> because I don't have device-mapper on in the kernel even tho udisks |
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> depends on lvm for device-mapper and asks for the kernel option as well?), |
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> but with 4.6.0, detection, at least for cd/dvd, didn't work here either. |
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> But, 4.6.1 suddenly started worked with cd/dvd at least (I've not changed |
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> kernel options, so I guess device-mapper isn't needed afterall, for that). |
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> Now 4.6.2 doesn't appear to be working, again, but I last updated a few |
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> days ago so maybe they've patched it to work again by now? |
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> I've not tried USB mass storage, so I don't know if that's working or not. |
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> But, I don't really care about auto-mounting here anyway, so it's not a |
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> big deal for me either way. If it works, it works, if it doesn't, it |
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> doesn't. I actually thought my config was screwed up for it, so I was |
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> surprised when it started working in 4.6.1. |
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Sorry forgot to mention I'm running AMD64 Stable and therefor KDE-4.4.5. |
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Of cause I do not _need_ the knotify-popup to mount something I can do it on |
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the command line as well but I find it is nice to have and the users of "the |
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other OS" asks me why I have do such things manually in Linux. |
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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