On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 13:33, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 11:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 09:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > >>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > >>>On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 08:29, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > >>>>Easy fix. As root, run "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". All will be good. > > >>>> > > >>>>I broke this when I had you change how /dev/hda6 got mounted. It may > > >>>>have broke a couple of other things. The reasion is that the mount > > >>>>points for other things must have been created after hda6 was mounted > > >>>> on /mnt. With /dev/hda6 no longer mounted there, then mount point is > > >>>> missing. > > >>>> > > >>>>Mikkel > > >>> > > >>>Fixed now. I can mount CDs and see photos, and play music. Yes - I > > >>> have sound. > > >>> > > >>>Thanks > > >>>Rosemary > > >> > > >>Life is good. I guess you are not using ALSO for your sound. This makes > > >>me wonder why it was trying to start. I guess it could be that the last > > >>time you ran harddrake it changed something in the sound config, so > > >> that ALSO was not handling the sound drivers any more, but left it > > >> still trying to run. Not a good thing. > > >> > > >>Is you are fealing brave, you could try plugging in your USB card > > >>reader, and seeing if it works now. It wouldn't susprise me if it did. > > >> > > >>Mikkel > > > > > > Not sure what to expect as have only used it in Windows where a > > > dialogue window comes up with options (once it is plugged in with card > > > in), and the green light on the card reader flashes when the photos are > > > being uploaded. > > > > > > I went into gwenview to see if I could see anything - couldn't, but my > > > process could be incorrect. Don't know if this helps or not > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cat sysconfig/hotplug > > > # This file contains defaults for hotplug > > > # > > > # HOTPLUG_RC_$SUBSYSTEM controls whether subsystem is started by > > > # hotplug rc script ("cold plugging") > > > # > > > # SUBSYSTEM currently is usb, input, ieee1394, scsi. > > > > > > HOTPLUG_RC_usb=yes > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ > > > > > > I may just need to learn to mount it? > > > > > > Rosemary > > > > Well, if you are running KDE, you should get a new desktop icon when you > > plug it in. From the CLI, there should be ether /mnt/removable or > > /mnt/camera with the device already mounted on it. If not, you could try: > > No desktop icon. > > > mkdir /mnt/camera > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera > > At the line beginning 'mount' I get " mount special > device /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera does not exist, can't find /dev/sda1 > /mnt/camera in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. > > > If that does not work, then run "usbview" and see if it is being > > detected... > > Installed and started usbviewer - it simply gives me a window with a list > of host controller entries. > > > Mikkel > > Now that I can boot back into linux I can wait for this, as can do my > photos in windows for now. I imagine that installing 10.2 will get rid of > a few problems... > > Rosemary
Just in case you need/want it this is fstab [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cat fstab /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2
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