On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 18:34 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:47 -0700, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > Yes. I have two USB memory sticks that I have used > > regularly with 9.3 ... > > > > Maura > > --- Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > > > > When I was running SUSE 9.3 I used to plug a > > > memory > > > > stick into a USB port and automatically a window > > > > opened up showing its contents ..... > > > > > > > > WHy SuSE 10.3 is not seeing my USB memory stick ? > > > > Presumably I need to mount it somewhere ??? > > > > > > > > > > Of course there should be no need to manually mount > > > the device - you > > > should get a popup asking what you want to do with > > > it. Is this indeed > > > the same usb device that worked in 9.3? > > > > > > I believe HAL is now partially controlled by the desktop. In gnome, you might > have to change the gnome configuration. Before you do something drastic, why > not > create a new user a new user and with a pristine directory and see if the > usb disk mounts. If it does you might have to track the problem down the > desktop configuration.
For me it has always just worked when using kde across opensuse 10.1 and 10.2 but sometimes you can break it. The previous post was right: it is controlled by your desktop and is not built into lighter-weight desktops such as Xfce, icewm, etc. I found this quote on google: "There is now a set of utilities out there called "pmount" and "hal" which provide a more dependable interface so that GNOME and KDE can automatically mount these things. So first, install the packages "pmount" and "hal" (in Debian "hal" depends automatically on "udev", - hence you will need to be running kernel 2.6 for any of this to work). Then, you will need to add all authorized users to the group "plugdev". Any user in this group will be able to automatically mount a USB device." If you keep googling you will come to understand better why yours is broken and how to fix it. I have an idea I read a fix on this list from several months ago, but couldn't find it quickly. HTH. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
