On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:05:47PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:30:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > though. At LinuxTag, sven told me that udev and gnome-volume-manager > > > > would be > > > > the way to go, but the volume manager thingy cares only about CDs and > > > > such, > > > > but not about usb sticks, so this failed also. > > > > > > g-v-m has a "Removable storage" place, I think it handles usb sticks > > > (anybody to confirm ?) > > > > I can confirm, that as of june 26 or something such (during Linuxtag) where > > i > > tested this in the gnome booth on my ibook, it didn't work (and apparently > > there was some kernel OOPS when parts of g-v-m was started, i had no time to > > really investigate this though). Probably was never tested on non-x86. > > Well, I told you to file a bug about the oops in HAL. Regarding the USB
Yeah, sorry but i had no time for it, and i thought that finalizing good 2.6 kernels and d-i support was more important, and i had a severe bug i needed to hunt on the pegasos2 machines, which is thankfully fixed now. > stick support, I also told you that it needs /etc/fstab support which > has not been finalized. There is a script you can use in the hal package > AFAIK, but it is not used by default. The hal and the > gnome-volume-maintainer are aware of the sitution and I am quite > confident that things are hashed out until Sarge releases. Ok, cool. > Anyway, this is not a good example to point at, as GNOME upstream has > only recently started to care about this and Debian never cared about > this until now. Ok. > Having USB sticks mounted automatically sounds like a task for the > kernel maintainers to me (GNOME should just acknowledge it and react). Why ? The kernel can do that just fine, thanks to hotplug and the underlying infrastructure HAL or whatever also uses. It is not usefull without gnome/nautilus showing an icon for it though. > Nevertheless the GNOME/Freedesktop.org people finally did the work for > us, so we should be grateful and not complain about the quality of the > packages, IMHO. Cool. I still don't like the spatial view per default, and the splattering of windows it implies. but then, i will almost never use nautilus anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther
