Theo Schmidt wrote: > Am Sonntag, 18. September 2005 16.56 schrieb Derek Broughton: > ... >> Sorry, but 2.4 is pretty primitive these days. As long as it only has >> the >> "same" problems, upgrade. I wouldn't want to bet we can fix _this_ >> problem on 2.4. > > OK, convinced and done (see previous mail).
Excellent. >> >> For most people, hal, >> dbus & pmount solve the problem - without any need to configure anything. > > dbus is installed, including the documentation. I don't have a clue what > to do with this. Me neither :-) It's just a dependency for hal and pmount. > In order to install hal or udev I would need to uninstall > baseconfig base-config?? > and about ten other important-sounding packages. The last time > I did something like this, my system became unusable. Maybe give us the actual output from apt? > But pmount now works. And KDE shows the devices :-) All I'm missing is a > way of umounting them easily. So, you have a device on the desktop that is unmounted? Click on the device, it mounts, right-click and select "unmount" to unmount it. If that's not working, what _is_ happening? > You are correct. My problem seems to be wierd partitions and/or unknown > file types. Just while writing this I managed to mount one of my SD cards, > but only after using QTparted in order to identify the partition to use > (sdc1), but shows "unknown file system type". Pmount then works. fstab > entries don't, because of the unknown file system. Pmount rocks, halfway > there! Thanks, Derek. > > Incidently, cat /proc/partitions won't show the SD card *until it has > already been pmounted*. It is thus not useful to determine unknown > partitions. I think that's a hotplug or udev issue. I think we really need to get udev fixed. Have you done an "apt-get update" recently? -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
