On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:54:38PM -0500, Paul Hoy wrote:
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>On Nov 30, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:
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>> I'm having some problems taming the HAL beast. On my USB memory
>> stick I have two partitions, they turn up as /dev/sdb{1,2}. I have
>> given them nice descriptive labels. Under Ubuntu
>> HAL+Gnome-Volume-Manager+pmount would have the two partitions
>> mounted under /media/<label>.
>>
>> Now, under Arch I can't seem to get any of the two partitions
>> mounted at all. Sometimes, not all the times, /dev/sdb is mounted as
>> /media/ usbdisk. That isn't very useful at all.
>>
>> I created /etc/hal/fdi/policy/local.fdi in hope that it would be
>> loaded (the same file under Ubuntu was). I can see no evidence it is
>> loaded though :(
>>
>> Can anyone offer any pointers to help in configuring HAL+GVM+pmount?
>>> >Hi, > >I'm curious: are you using the pre1 iso? HAL and USB stopped working >for me with this install. I used the arch-0.7 ISO, so I don't think it's a pre1. I've been up-to-date on my packages from [current], [extra] and [community] up until yesterday (just saw I need to update quite a few GNOME-related packages this morning). Anyway, it actually seems to work now. What I had forgotten was to make my local.fdi file a proper XML file. Once I added the proper header and enclosed it all in <deviceinfo> it started working properly. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works.
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