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From: Stephen Liu <satimis@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:20:52
Message-Id: 20061010111637.59023.qmail@web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com
1 Hi Iain,
2
3 > I actually meant brand & chipset if you know it :) But nevermind, your
4 Oh Sorry misunderstood your question
5
6 Brand - Nil
7 Chipset JM20337
8 0615 LGEZ1 86
9 11097027
10
11 There are dozens of these devices in the market. I just selected an economic one.
12
13 > AFAIK this seems to be OK. There were problems with various versions of
14 > udev, & gvm, but you seem to have avoided those...
15
16 > Read here for some more info if you're feeling adventurous:
17 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107784
18
19 Noted with tks.
20
21 OK just for curiosity. I found automount worked on this USB enclose when installed on FC5_64 on this PC (on another HD) and also on FC5_32 on another PC, both with icons displayed on gnome desktop.
22
23 > Of course! well spotted Andrew! you need to start gvm - run
24 > `gnome-volume-manager &` from a terminal, then logout and back in again,
25 > and see if it works.
26
27 Yes, it worked, no icons on gnome desktop.
28
29 $ ls -al /media/disk
30 $ ls -al /media/disk-l
31 showed 2 partitions of the USB enclosure.
32
33 > After that, you could try the preferences for gvm, (in preferences >
34 > removable drives and media) and make sure automounting and such is
35 > checked.
36
37 On console
38 # /etc/init.d/hald start
39 * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ...
40 [ ok ] * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
41 [ ok ]localhost satimis
42
43 # gnome-volume-propertie
44 ...
45 Mount removable drives when hot-plugged
46 Mount removable media when inserted
47 Browse removable media when inserted
48 all checked
49
50 Tks.
51
52 B.R.
53 SL
54
55
56
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Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>