-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 24. M�rz 2004 20:44 schrieb Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler: > I read somewhere that there might be a script out there which will put an > icon on the KDE desktop when a USB device is plugged in. I'm having the > problem that sometimes USB devices get attached to sda, and sometimes sdb > or sdc. > > Anyoune heard of such a srcipt or utility? KDE has this ability built-in (check Control-Center -> Desktop -> Behaviour -> Device Icons (Warning: translated from German, may be inaccurate)).
The real solution to the device naming problem is in kernel 2.6, which can use a userspace utility named "udev", which can assign device names using e.g. the Model/Vendor ID Strings in the device itself. This way one can associate e.g. "Lexar Jumpdrive" with /dev/memorystick, which solves the problem. But "udev" is not ready for widespread production use (IMHO). I use it on my SID desktop machine, but I had to configure quite some things so e.g. my scanner and my DVD burner worked... But maybe the KDE feature is already enough... Patrick - -- Patrick Dreker GPG KeyID : 0xFCC2F7A7 (Patrick Dreker) Fingerprint: 7A21 FC7F 707A C498 F370 1008 7044 66DA FCC2 F7A7 Key available from keyservers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYewGcERm2vzC96cRAvxtAKCBsPCNb05Pjk3lILqPmrNFq+NmqACcD+p3 dwrjqcr7+vECs7lBYtGnifE= =OWHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
