On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:09, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nathan A. Smith wanted us to know: > > >> >I was wondering -- is there any effort to expand the usb.distmap file to > >> >include usb devices like thumbdrives, compact flash cards, zaurus, etc > >> If "thumbdrive" is the same thing as the usb flash drives, then some are > >> already supported. If not, then I'm going to start googling. > >Yes, usb flash drives and thumbdrives are the same... I guess all these > >devices are under "usb-storage". Now usb-storage only insures the > >correct modules are loaded -- any effort to make these devices > >automount? > > In KDE that shipped with 9.1, when I plug my USB Flash drive in, an icon > appears on the desktop within about 7 seconds. I click on it and I see > the contents of the Flash drive. Capability is already there. If it's > not showing up on yours: > 1) Try using KDE if you're not already > 2) Check that you have the latest version of hotplug > 3) Check dmesg to see if it's reporting any odd errors Ok, I tried this with a generic 256Meg thumb drive (from compusa) -- The following is what shows up in my /var/log/messages:
Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: hub.c: new USB device 02:00.0-4, assigned address 4 Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: Vendor: 256MB Model: HardDrive Rev: 1.88 Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: SCSI device sdb: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Aug 15 21:19:36 NASA kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Aug 15 21:19:39 NASA /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product ea0/6828/110 Which all looks normal (and good), however, no desktop icon and I have to mount it manually... Nasa > > I don't know if any other desktop provides this as I don't normally run > anything other than KDE and IceWM (which doesn't have desktop icons). > - -- > Blue skies... Todd > | Get a bigger hammer! | What does IIRC mean? | > | http://www.mrball.net | --OpenLDAP Mailing List | > | http://faq.mrball.net | | > Linux kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.16 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc > > iD8DBQE/PaB6IBT1264ScBURApwjAJ42BIqd7q9QnqS3AJxActab45xXLACfVO62 > 51Et7z4lrBZf1/UplUe7lXM= > =pPUC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
