Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:43:51 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD do dbus & hal work? Message-ID: <20081015064351.GA69937@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1224052599.4011.4.camel@debian> References: <1223935437.4511.5.camel@debian> <7daacbbe0810140314t18df6da5r44e6cde2c834317a@mail.gmail.com> <1224052599.4011.4.camel@debian>
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:36:39AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 12:14 +0200, Dominique Goncalves wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl> wrote: > > > I'm trying to mount (USB) devices in KDE/Gnome automagically through > > > dbus and hal. I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf: > > > > > > dbus_enable="YES" > > > hald_enable="YES" > > > > > > Unfortunately when I insert an USB (NTFS formatted) nothing happens. > > > When I insert a (fat) sdcard in my cardreader still nothing happens. > > > I do think I'm missing something obvious, who know what it is? > > > > Do a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' then insert your sd card and see > > what's going on. > > > > The HAL faq may be useful http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html. > > > > Thanks, I followed the faq to the letter and it show a dialog when I > insert a USB stick. Unfortunately when I insert an sdcard still nothing > happens. Can anyone confirm that dbus and/or hald have anything to do with this? (I thought those were specific to X...) When attaching a USB device to a USB port, the kernel will notice the device has been added and will do the proper enumeration. For example, when adding a USB hard disk or a USB pen drive, a umass device will be found, then a daX device should be created (which is what you use to access the disk; USB storage devices appear as SCSI disks). But in the case of a USB device that's already attached to the bus, e.g. one of those 7-in-1 card readers, I cannot see how adding a SD/MMC card would cause the hard disk to suddenly show up. You would need to run "camcontrol rescan 0", to cause the device to be re-scanned for any media which was inserted. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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