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peter4
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 Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:33 am Post subject: KDE suddenly stopped seeing USB flash drives |
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| Normaly I would get an icon on the desktop, or a popup window saying that it found a new device. But now after plugging in a flash drive, or my ipod nothing happens... I can still mount them, even with pmount-hal, and KDE works fine with CDs and DVDs.... does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong? |
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jstead1
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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First thing to check is if the media is enabled to be shown on the desktop.
Right click on the desktop and choose Configure Desktop... Then choose Behavior, then click on the Device Icons tab.
You can check the obvious boxes (Mounted Removable Medium and Unmounted Removable Medium) then insert your flashdrive and see if it shows up.
If that doesn't work, you can check all the boxes then insert your flashdrive and see if it shows up.
To get an idea of what's going on while you do these things, open a terminal window and as root:
| Code: | | tail -f /var/log/dmesg |
Include the output if you still have problems.
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peter4
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No offense, but if you take me for an idiot, why didn't you ask me if i plugged it correctly, or have my computer running?...
anyway, i found a solution on gentoo-wiki already (emerge -C hal ; rm -rf /usr/share/hal ; emerge hal) |
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albright
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | No offense, but if you take me for an idiot, why didn't you ask me if i plugged it correctly, or have my computer running?... |
peter4 ... take two deep breaths and try to relax
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jstead1
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| peter4 wrote: | No offense, but if you take me for an idiot, why didn't you ask me if i plugged it correctly, or have my computer running?...
anyway, i found a solution on gentoo-wiki already (emerge -C hal ; rm -rf /usr/share/hal ; emerge hal) |
Well, I guess you could have done that before you posted.
Sorry, about the first answer. I was trying to help. I won't make that mistake again. (Helping you that is.)
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