On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:39:33 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Mark Grieveson wrote:
[...]
> >What kernel are you using? I feel if you upgrade to a 2.6.8 kernel
> >image, and install gnome-volume-manager (with hal), that your USB drive
> >will be found. I'd recommend the default (gnome) desktop too. Then
> >your USB drive will likely just appear on your desktop (you'd need to
> >reboot after installing this stuff, though, at which point, I'm guessing
> >that your USB drive will be found, and shown right on your desktop.
>
> Is that really supposed to happen?
> I previously tried to install pmount and hal, and in so doing
> uninstalled hotplug. Don't ask me, that's what apt-get says. Well
> this wrecked my xwindows, so I undid it. I've searched high and low
> for new things to try. This does seem to be like problem #1 that
> people have.
The newer versions of udev replace hotplug. What you describe above is
supposed happen; it is furthermore recommended to purge the hotplug
configuration files after the package is removed. Installing udev did
not really "wreck your Xwindow system", it just resulted in a problem
with your mouse. (Set "AllowMouseOpenFail" to "true", unplug your mouse,
restart X and you will see that it does not really need the mouse at
all.) I don't think that reinstalling hotplug was the proper way to
address your problem.
> I have an AGNULA kernel, 2.6.14-1-multimedia.
Of course, the AGNULA stuff might be buggy. You should not forget that
you are not running a "clean" Debian system, so there might be all sorts
of agnula-specific issues that we cannot really help you with.
> usbview shows the flash drive in red. tail -f /var/log/messages does
> indicate that the usb thing is plugged in, typically to two addresses
> each time.
> mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb tells me "not a valid block device"
> mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb says nothing, but I have meaningless
> files in /mnt/usb; a file called devices and folders 001 and 002,
> which have files named 001 and 002 in them.
Did you try vfat as the file system type? What type of flash drive was
it?
> I've never heard of usb drives just showing up when you plug them in
> in Linux. Is that for real?
It works (at least) with KDE and Gnome. It needs udev, pmount, hal and
dbus, plus gnome-volume-manager for Gnome.
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Regards,
Florian
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