[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was just wondering the same while testing this with my usb camara
> and it doesn't work although I have the above lines in rc.conf. My
> guess is that it wants the msdos file type that I normally give in
> fstab that I erased. There must be a way to configure that.
No need. HAL will automatically detect the filesystem type and mount the
volume accordingly when told to by media:/ - at least, that works for the
sd-card from my camera, I couldn't test the magic that media:/ tries to do
for cameras with proprietary transfer protocols (it seems to use
libgphoto2/kamera for those). Note however that unmounting ("remove
safely" in media:/-terms) USB storage devices will only work correctly in
the latest revision of the kdebase port.
> Actually, I fail to see a big advantage to hal over an entry in fstab,
> devfs.con entry for permissions and vfs.usermount=1 other than I get
> to run 3 more daemons.
If you don't see not requiring fstab entries, devfs.conf setups or
vfs.usermount tweaking as an advantage, there is not much left indeed,
except for the autorun feature (which I guess is a mixed blessing, just
like on Windows). The automatic filesystem detection is rather nice as
well in my opinion, but it's probably of much bigger use on Linux than on
FreeBSD, where most users are only dealing with two or three types
filesystems at maximum anyway (I haven't really tested yet how HAL deals
with ext2 or udf-formatted volumes either, probably not too well).
Cheers,
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