From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 06:43:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7759A1065677 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C518FC20 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:43:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by QMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SucL1a00E0Fqzac53ujtsp; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:43:53 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Sujs1a0012P6wsM3Uujsme; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:43:53 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=nTowVmpFNmYA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=8RuaFYOCffUDMHDVLG0A:9 a=4OfU1XZ9deth96Ndg-rCqxq-W_gA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C60A5C9419; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:43:51 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Aniruddha Message-ID: <20081015064351.GA69937@icarus.home.lan> References: <1223935437.4511.5.camel@debian> <7daacbbe0810140314t18df6da5r44e6cde2c834317a@mail.gmail.com> <1224052599.4011.4.camel@debian> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224052599.4011.4.camel@debian> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dominique Goncalves Subject: Re: FreeBSD do dbus & hal work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:43:54 -0000 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 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 |