Randy McMurchy wrote:
William Zhou wrote these words on 04/25/06 09:47 CST:
By saying "they don't do much" I mean they don't auto mount and umount CDs
when I insert or ejecting them, they lack some useful parameters when generating
the fstab entries, and something else that I want it to do like playing
CDs :-).
Well I'm not sure what all else you need in fstab that HAL can't do
already (please provide an example), but everything else you mention
isn't done by HAL, nor probably ever will. It is a common misconception
that HAL does (or is supposed to do) these types of things.
Everything you describe is to be done by userspace tools that rely
on the information provided by HAL. HAL is not responsible for
automounting stuff or automatically playing a CD (and by the way,
you just don't have the right tools on your system if you cannot
get the features you describe to work).
For the fstab entry parameter, here are some I used:
Generic: users,noauto
FAT32: dmask,fmask,gid,uid,utf8=xxx,iocharset,iocharset,codepage
USB Drive: sync or async
HAL can be used to do a lot of stuff, even automount. But It's better if
ivman is used
in this case. I just list something I thought HAL would do but it
doesn't and then I found
ivman, it works great. I suggest we add Ivman to BLFS. see
http://ivman.sf.net .
William
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