Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently tried KDE on Suse 9.3, and happily noticed that when plugging
> a USB stick, it is automatically mounted somewhere within /media and
> a Konqueror instance pops up, showing the content of the stick.
> It seems to make use of HAL, but I also noticed something called "Suseplugger".
>
> Is it possible to get the same behaviour on Debian unstable (KDE 3.5),
> and how? (I have hal installed).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

see here, steps 1) - 3):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg01916.html

For unstable and KDE 3.5 you need "dbus" instead of "dbus-1".

Also make sure that you have upgraded to the current version of both
udev (0.084-1) and hal/libhal1 (0.5.6-2).

This should get you an icon on the Desktop whenever you insert a USB
stick or a CD. Further automatic actions, such as "Open in New Window"
or "Play" (audio CD) can be configured in "K-Menu > Control Center >
Peripherals > Storage Media". (If everything works properly you will be
prompted for a default action when you insert a given media type for the
first time.)

Regards,
Florian


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Hi Florian,

> see here, steps 1) - 3):
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg01916.html
>
>
> For unstable and KDE 3.5 you need "dbus" instead of "dbus-1".
>
> Also make sure that you have upgraded to the current version of both
> udev (0.084-1) and hal/libhal1 (0.5.6-2).
>
>
> This should get you an icon on the Desktop whenever you insert a USB
> stick or a CD. Further automatic actions, such as "Open in New Window"
> or "Play" (audio CD) can be configured in "K-Menu > Control Center >
> Peripherals > Storage Media". (If everything works properly you will be
> prompted for a default action when you insert a given media type for the
> first time.)

Thank you very much! It worked just fine. Nonetheless, I had to
reboot in order to get it work after many attempts; there must
be a reason.

Cheers,

--
Jérôme Marant

Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
>
>>see here, steps 1) - 3):
>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg01916.html
>>
>>
>>For unstable and KDE 3.5 you need "dbus" instead of "dbus-1".
>>
>>Also make sure that you have upgraded to the current version of both
>>udev (0.084-1) and hal/libhal1 (0.5.6-2).
>>
>>
>>This should get you an icon on the Desktop whenever you insert a USB
>>stick or a CD. Further automatic actions, such as "Open in New Window"
>>or "Play" (audio CD) can be configured in "K-Menu > Control Center >
>>Peripherals > Storage Media". (If everything works properly you will be
>>prompted for a default action when you insert a given media type for the
>>first time.)
>
>
> Thank you very much! It worked just fine. Nonetheless, I had to
> reboot in order to get it work after many attempts; there must
> be a reason.

Hi Jérôme,

Maybe that was because dbus, hal and udev had to be restarted. These
services are stopped and restarted automatically when they themselves
are upgraded, but I am not sure if, for example, a udev upgrade also
restarts dbus and hal. This might screw things up.

You should not have to reboot, though; you can always run (as root)
"udevsynthesize" to reread the udev rules, and "invoke-rc.d dbus" to
restart dbus and hal. This is also the first step in troubleshooting, as
it will (hopefully) give you meaningful error messages if things go wrong.

Regards,
Florian


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