Get Hal to use udev symlink

graffitici · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: Get Hal to use udev symlink

Hi,

I just finished writing a few udev rules in order to use my cell-phone with my laptop. They seem to work perfectly fine by themselves, and I can see the symlinks that are generated. Now, I would also like to configure ivman to mount these drives when they are detected, and open up rox to browse them. However hal doesn't seem to recognize the names that I have created.

The udev rules that I wrote are

dritan · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

you can check here for how to name the devices, don't use symlink, use permantent naming insteat (i think its in the howto). and you don't have to use hal or ivman if you just want to launch rox, you can just add

graffitici · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

As far as I remember, the ideal way of using custom UDEV rules is to include the usual kernel node as NAME="%k", and add the custom device as a SYMLINK. The sample rules in the document you mentioned seemed to approve that

quatsch · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

I use custom devicenames for some of my removable devices. Never had problems (I would be more cautious with devices that must be present for the system to work but removable devices aren't one of those). You could use SYMLINK+="%k" just in case some program expects to find it under the 'standard' name though usually you can tell a program where to find a particular device.