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On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:54, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 11/30/06, Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Anyway, I've looked into using hal,dbus and "media:/" in konqueror... It |
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> > works to a degree, but the hal daemon has a nasty habit of polling the cd |
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> > card/pcmcia to such a degree that autofs won't unmount the then when |
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> > you're done... |
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> I've had very good results just using the hal+dbus+pmount method with |
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> KDE. I haven't had any issues with Unmount/Eject options from the KDE |
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> device menu popups, or noticed any signfiicant "polling" by hal. Are |
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> you sure it is hald, and not something else (like ivman or autofs) |
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> that is polling? |
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Yes, very sure. You can't use autofs on a system that is using hald... You can |
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modify hal actions via config files to play nice with cdroms and such, but |
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you never get hal to leave cf cards alone. On a few of the forums that I've |
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found, have called this a pretty major bug... |
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On my own personal view, the way that kde handles things with hal, dbus and |
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pmount are kinda of kludgy. |
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Thanks for the message. |
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Jerry McBride |
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