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vladobos
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 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:28 pm Post subject: Automatically mounting USB devices? [SOLVED] |
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How can I enable any USB device (memory stick, camera) to be automatically mounted and show an icon on Desktop when it is pluged-in? Currently I must manualy to mount the devices and enter in it with console, as there is no icons appears in Storage Device section. I use latest Gentoo 2005-1 with both Gnome and KDE, an none of them currently can't do this.
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vladobos
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | you need udev and hal (compile kde with HAL use flag) |
How do you mean to recompile? I install KDE with the command: emerge --usepkg kde where PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom
Then it download two days the packages from servers (I'm on dial-up) and automatically compile them. I can't do that once again. Isn't there some solution with changing some options, or recompiling the kernel (the kernel see the devices, just don't mount them)? |
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williamg
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Good howto on getoo wiki. Look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman
Also take a look at the required software on that page. |
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Jeremy_Z
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| vladobos wrote: | | Quote: | | you need udev and hal (compile kde with HAL use flag) |
How do you mean to recompile? I install KDE with the command: emerge --usepkg kde where PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom
Then it download two days the packages from servers (I'm on dial-up) and automatically compile them. I can't do that once again. Isn't there some solution with changing some options, or recompiling the kernel (the kernel see the devices, just don't mount them)? |
Well obviously dialup is a problem with gentoo. KDE can use HAL to detect your device when plugged. So when you plug your usb key you have a nice icon appearing on your desktop. But for that you need to compile kde-base with hal use flag.
Gnome also has a feature like that.
Now you can also use ivman i guess, but i've heard it conflicts with hal somehow (not sure, i do not use ivman) and make script to add/remove icons on desktop too. See what fits you best. But KDE / Gnome can do it "natively", with ivman you may need to hack a bit.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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you can emerge hal separately
If you want KDE to auto-mount your devices you'll need to install dbus, hal and ivman as well after which you add each one of them to the default run level:
Code Listing 2.4: Setup auto-mounting
# emerge dbus hal ivman
# rc-update add dbus default
# rc-update add hald default
# rc-update add ivman default
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml)
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vladobos
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:36 am Post subject: [SOLVED] |
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Thank you all, it is solved  |
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