Package: unknown Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Reporting this after reading Martin Zobel-Helas's "How YOU can help Debian!" blog post [0].
For quite some time, I've been using an ExpressCard CompactFlash card reader. It did however require manual operations: sudo modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1 sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt and for a long time, I've been wondering how to make this as simple as reacting to events reported by KDE's device notifier, like what happens for USB thumb drives or CD. First part was fixed by adding --- pciehp pciehp_force=1 --- to /etc/modules Second part was fixed by creating /etc/hal/fdi/information/CompactFlash.fdi with the following content: --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- --> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.product" string="CF Card"> <merge key="storage.removable" type="bool">true</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> --- In case you have to debug a similar issue, some friends: --- hal-device |less sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 2>&1 | tee hal.log --- and [1]. HTH, Jean-Marc Ranger [0] http://blog.zobel.ftbfs.de/2011/06/how-you-can-help-debian-1.html [1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal-spec-git/hal-spec.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org