[gentoo-desktop] Re: CD-ROM mounting

[Duncan]

Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> posted
1233541115.12692.3.camel@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on  Sun, 01 Feb
2009 20:18:35 -0600:

> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 22:26 +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> posted
>> 1217715027.11765.5.camel@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on  Sat, 02
>> Aug 2008 17:10:27 -0500:
>>
>> > This is a Royal PITA!  We need to have, preferably as an easy to
>> > configure option, a consistent, named, filesystem location on which a
>> > particular device will mount, identified by the media type ("cdrom")
>> > or some other predictable name.  I have a photo cataloging program I
>> > wrote which expects to find all photo CDs, which have different names
>> > reflecting dates and sequence, mounted at a location which can be
>> > specified in its config file.  There are all kinds of applications
>> > which expect this!
>>
>> It's the automount stuff that's breaking.  If I just tell the hal/kde
>> popup to ignore the new media, and mount it manually, it works as
>> expected (mount still uses fstab, thank goodness).

> Duncan (et al), I _finally_ found a solution (pretty much) to this
> problem!  Some inquiries on one of the gentoo forums gave me some clues
> for further research and I turned up the following on an openSUSE forum:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mounting_to_Static_Mount_Points
>
> It works fine for gnome in Gentoo, and I've seen some comments
> indicating that it's also helpful in KDE.

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Thanks for that link!

Those *.fdi files can be headaches in other cases as well and 
unfortunately aren't as easy to find proper documentation on as the 
traditional configuration they replace.  It may be great for newbies, but 
it sure gives *ix traditionalists headaches when stuff doesn't work as 
the *ix gods intended it to! =:^)

In another case, newer xorg can ignore the xorg.conf setting for keyboard 
and mouse until the proper "magic" incantation is added.  (Section 
Serverflags, Option "AllowEmptyInput" 0)  In theory, *.fdi files are 
supposed to take over, but while the most basic ones work, non-standard 
keyboard layouts and etc don't without tweaking the appropriate *.fdi 
files, but the documentation of exactly what and where to tweak them is 
way harder to come by than say the xorg.conf manpage, and doesn't exist 
at all in some cases.  So for now, I just keep that serverflags entry and 
the traditional xorg.conf entries still work as they should.

But at least now I have some sort of documentation available for the hal 
automount stuff!  That's certainly useful and the link is going in my 
bookmarks right now.  Thanks again!

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