On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:09, 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 > > 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).
GNOME does it too. -- adamw
