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.
J.