From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXFfI-0000HQ-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:20:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9ABIijX003279; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:18:44 GMT Received: from web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.86]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9ABGc9N017440 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:16:39 GMT Received: (qmail 59025 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Oct 2006 11:16:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=cCW0qiYSVStEFZzTGkGJwP1HgMaq1a5ehgxO8AFz3VApoc1sXAwbFHbPMYbCK4/BFvD4tH7GOlscpcaURR0deEJ+w7Z1Y3GTNV7p8K61jps834XEXRc1b3XMEKK1ex2Pgw6iRiUoeTIJpRTRTeisiBzblFidXW5csznhW2V8MJo= ; Message-ID: <20061010111637.59023.qmail@web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [219.78.150.229] by web35207.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:16:37 PDT Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:16:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Liu Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9ABGc9N017440 X-Archives-Salt: a4a1567f-4689-4633-9e13-ab13ec49e219 X-Archives-Hash: a4149799e70aee70ca89a79d6af67a2f Hi Iain, > I actually meant brand & chipset if you know it :) But nevermind, your Oh Sorry misunderstood your question Brand - Nil Chipset JM20337 0615 LGEZ1 86 11097027 There are dozens of these devices in the market. I just selected an economic one. > AFAIK this seems to be OK. There were problems with various versions of > udev, & gvm, but you seem to have avoided those... > Read here for some more info if you're feeling adventurous: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107784 Noted with tks. 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. > Of course! well spotted Andrew! you need to start gvm - run > `gnome-volume-manager &` from a terminal, then logout and back in again, > and see if it works. Yes, it worked, no icons on gnome desktop. $ ls -al /media/disk $ ls -al /media/disk-l showed 2 partitions of the USB enclosure. > After that, you could try the preferences for gvm, (in preferences > > removable drives and media) and make sure automounting and such is > checked. On console # /etc/init.d/hald start * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ... [ ok ] * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ... [ ok ]localhost satimis # gnome-volume-propertie ... Mount removable drives when hot-plugged Mount removable media when inserted Browse removable media when inserted all checked Tks. B.R. SL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list