Thanks for your reply Duncan, <snip> After re-emerging hal udev dbus pmount I still had no notification pop-up. Looking harder at this problem, I have identified 2 issues and rectified them. 1. The dvd drives were not acpi compatible, so I have changed them and now the tray stays closed. 2. I have deleted .kde4 and reloaded kde, When I originally installed kde4 I copied the original .kde3 directory and renamed it .kde4 I now have kde running properly and if I insert a usb disc or insert a cd I now get the notification pop-up with the options. So far so good. However, alsaplayer and kscd are still not working. I also have problems playing dvds in kmplayer or xine, the picture keeps breaking up. > > But we don't know whether it's hal or kde, now, or possibly dbus (oh, and > do you have policykit installed and the USE flag enabled, that's another > possibility...). <snip> I do not have policy kit installed I do not have fstab entries for the dvd devices. > Something else you might consider, tho it's not urgent and AFAIK is > unrelated to this, but who knows? /dev/hd? indicates that you're still > using the old kernel ide drivers. Those are now officially deprecated, > with the newer libata SATA/PATA drivers the encouraged replacement (yes, > even tho the config still says pata's experimental). They'll use sd? > notation instead of the older hd? notation, so then you'll not have any > hd? devices at all. Unless you /know/ that you don't have libata support > for your old ide/pata chipset, I'd strongly encourage you to consider > switching... at your leisure, tho. I have now switch off the old pata drivers and have noticed that my hard disks are now sga sgb etc. I now use kernel 2.6.31 <snip> I have been running a amd64 system with a lot of packages that are marked ~amd64. So I have decided to go to a full blow ~amd64 system in the hope that my remaining problems will be resolved.
Thanks for your time, I'll let you know how things go after the 400 packages to be built. Paul
