Hi all, I'd like to revisit the HAL issue again to see if there is any more news or information regarding it. Most people that have commented so far simply say "All you have to do is use the new GNOME auto-mount program (I've forgotten its name), and everything will work the same".
Well, not really. I like KDE. Though I build GNOME, and monitor its development, I prefer the KDE desktop. Now I don't know what KDE tool is used to automatically mount disk drives when they are hotplugged or inserted into the drive, but I know it "just works". To clarify, when I say "automount", I don't mean that the device needs to be clicked on in the GUI desktop or some other manual intervention required to access it, I mean it is *automounted*. Which means mounted immediately upon insertion, without any manual intervention. With the current BLFS HAL setup, which uses the fstab-sync method of updating /etc/fstab in the automount process it works in KDE. My question is, how is this going to work now in KDE when there is no longer the fstab-sync operation to update /etd/fstab? I don't want to update HAL/D-BUS and have GNOME work great but KDE automounting broken. I have not installed the new HAL/D-BUS combination and tested with KDE yet. Has anyone else? Unlike others who have commented and their primary use for automounting is in the actual GUI desktop environment, I, and I can't help think but many others, need this functionality system-wide, not just from GNOME or KDE. For example: KDE is being run by user A on machine X. However user A is not *using* KDE at the moment, instead user A is also logged into machine X via SSH on some other machine. When a device is plugged into a USB port, or a CD inserted into the drive, of machine X (even if this required a phone call to a person who had physical access to machine X if User A does not at the moment), it becomes available system-wide, without any interaction in the GUI desktop. User A can access the device from his remote SSH session. With the new HAL/D-BUS setup, can this operation still be done? -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 06:44:00 up 30 days, 18:21, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.32, 0.28 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
