Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling Hald services

[Pupino]

2008/6/22 Norman Hakim <desprado_mariachi@×××××.com>:

>
>
> *Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@×××××.com>* wrote:
>
> 2008/6/21 Norman Hakim :
>
> > Yes,i can the icon but i cannot open it,after i click it nothing happen.
> Is
> > it i have to Run "mount" and "dmesg" using terminal? i'm using Gnome
> desktop
> > manager,the id stated is "1000".
>
> So when you click, nothings happens? No error message?
> "id" should tell you a bit more. It should be something like:
> uid=501(user) gid=501(user) groups=501(user),80(admin)
>
> To make automount work, you need to be a member of a couple of groups.
>
> Ward
> --
> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
>
> When i click nothing happen & no error message.i've checked the id, my
> account is 1000, and my acc is a member of a few groups like
> portage,root,daemon.
>
> What are the groups that i have to join so that i can make automount work?
>
> Regards,
> Norman
>
>
>     * NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA*
>

Hi,
adding yourself to the "disk" group will give you acces to disk device and
adding to the "plugdev" group will grant you can use hald.
I think this should do the trick.
HTH
Davide