On Wednesday 24 March 2004 21:13, Patrick Dreker wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2004 20:44 schrieb Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler: > > I read somewhere that there might be a script out there which will put an > > icon on the KDE desktop when a USB device is plugged in. I'm having the > > problem that sometimes USB devices get attached to sda, and sometimes sdb > > or sdc. > > > > Anyoune heard of such a srcipt or utility? > > KDE has this ability built-in (check Control-Center -> Desktop -> Behaviour > -> Device Icons (Warning: translated from German, may be inaccurate)). >
Thanks, I foud that, but it doesn't seem to work for USB devices, or am I missing something there (I'm using the 3.2-1 packages from unstable on a testing/unstable system) > The real solution to the device naming problem is in kernel 2.6, which can > use a userspace utility named "udev", which can assign device names using > e.g. the Model/Vendor ID Strings in the device itself. This way one can > associate e.g. "Lexar Jumpdrive" with /dev/memorystick, which solves the > problem. But "udev" is not ready for widespread production use (IMHO). I > use it on my SID desktop machine, but I had to configure quite some things > so e.g. my scanner and my DVD burner worked... > > But maybe the KDE feature is already enough... hm, not sure if I want to tackle that. Thanks, Chris > > Patrick > - -- > Patrick Dreker > > GPG KeyID : 0xFCC2F7A7 (Patrick Dreker) > Fingerprint: 7A21 FC7F 707A C498 F370 1008 7044 66DA FCC2 F7A7 > Key available from keyservers > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAYewGcERm2vzC96cRAvxtAKCBsPCNb05Pjk3lILqPmrNFq+NmqACcD+p3 > dwrjqcr7+vECs7lBYtGnifE= > =OWHn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover
