On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:40:54PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:36:01PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 13:18:15 Chris G wrote:
As Richard said yesterday, gnome-volume-manager.
I ran that yesterday and nothing *appeared* to happen. It's still happily running. Should it automatically spot USB mass storage devices being plugged in and mount them for you or do I need to do something to configure it or make it do something?
Its configuration options are in System > Preferences > Removable Drives and Media.
It probably uses dbus. Check that's running:
$ ps x | grep dbus
If you don't see any processes apart from the ps one then you'll need to find out why dbus isn't running.
The underlying interface from userspace to the kernel will be HAL (http://hal.freedesktop.org/) which will use DBUS to inform any interested parties that there's a new device they might like to take a prod at. So you'll need hald running too.
Yes, that's running:-
68 2646 1 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:11 hald root 2647 2646 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner root 2667 2647 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:02 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event1 root 2707 2647 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq 68 2708 2647 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 2722 2647 0 Aug17 ? 00:01:30 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec) root 2725 2647 0 Aug17 ? 00:05:48 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr1 (every 2 sec)