I ended up solving this problem myself using automount.
In my local_conf.py, I have:
plugin.activate('usb')
plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='video', args=('USB Device 1',
'/mnt/usb/device_a'))
plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='audio', args=('USB Device 1',
'/mnt/usb/device_a'))
plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='image', args=('USB Device 1',
'/mnt/usb/device_a'))
plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='video', args=('USB Device 2',
'/mnt/usb/device_b'))
plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='audio', args=('USB Device 2',
'/mnt/usb/device_b'))
plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='image', args=('USB Device 2',
'/mnt/usb/device_b'))
my /etc/auto.master has:
#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#
/misc /etc/auto.misc
/net -hosts
/mnt/usb /etc/auto.usb --timeout=2 --debug
#
# Include central master map if it can be found using
# nsswitch sources.
#
# Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
# above) in the included master map any keys that are the
# same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
# precedence.
#
+auto.master
my /etc/auto.usb has:
device_a -fstype=vfat,rw,gid=100,umask=002 :/dev/sda1
device_b -fstype=vfat,rw,gid=100,umask=002 :/dev/sdb1
I did run into one problem with automount, I found out that I had to remove
/dev/random and create a link from
/dev/random to /dev/urandom. For some reason, /dev/random was causing
automount to not start.
I hope that helps. This has worked just fine for me.
Jim
"Evan Hisey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Emil-
> Gnome relies on the hal/udev/dbus trio to do automounting. Freevo
> does not use these tools at all. Third party auotmounter will not
> really help you at all either, or atleast if you are going to use the
> usb plugin. Can you attach your local_config.py? Most likely issue
> will be that you do not have teh usb plugin configured correctly.
>
> Evan
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Emil Visti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi, guys. I've installed Freevo on top of a totally vanilla Debian Etch and
>> I have a problem that is just driving me up the walls.
>> Now, I have everything set up in Freevo the way I would like it. That is no
>> "TV" menu item, for example, as I just want to play video files on the box
>> from an inserted external USB HD.
>>
>> However, inserting my USB HD doesn't mount it in Freevo. At least that's
>> what I assume is happening.. I insert my drive and I can now choose "USB
>> Disk" from the menus, but when I do choose it I get "Directory does not
>> exist" or something similar.
>>
>> The thing I find odd is that the disk mounts just fine in Gnome. No problem
>> what-so-ever. It mounts and plays media files in the underlying Gnome that
>> Freevo runs on top of just fine. This is just baffling to me. Could someone
>> explain to me what I'm doing wrong in down-to-earth terms, because I would
>> really like to use Freevo, but as of now I can't use the only function I
>> want..
>>
>> I tried installing some thirdparty automounters, but that doesn't seem to
>> help either and I got confused settings them up as well.
>>
>> I would really appreciate any help what-so-ever. If there's an output of a
>> command or anything that would maybe help me, don't hesitate to mention it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Emil Visti
>>
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