[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3.3 not detecting attached devices

[Jason E. Hale]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 09:34:17 David Bruce Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is anyone else having KDE failing to detect attached devices?
> 
> dmesg shows the usb-flash attached and an entry appears under /dev/msdosfs
>  but KDE does not flinch and dolphin does not show the device under its
>  'Places'.
> 
> I do not know where to start diagnosing this problem (could it be hal
> related)?  [`ps -A | grep da0` shows hald-addon-storage: /dev/da0
>  (hald-addon- storage)]
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> David
> 

I have a Sony USB digital camera that creates two devices when I plug it in.  
The first one da0 is the main file storage and da1 contains software for the 
camera.  I noticed when I upgraded FreeBSD from 7.2 to 8.0-RC1 that da0 would 
not show up in Dolphin but da1 would.  HAL was not picking up da0 for some 
reason, but I could mount it manually.  It worked just fine under FreeBSD 7.2 
with KDE 4.3.1.  I then upgraded to 8.0-RC2 and now da0 appears as a fixed 
drive rather than a removable one and da1 shows up as a removable drive.   
This is better than my first scenario, but I did have to edit my 
PolicyKit.conf to allow myself to mount fixed disks.

I reinstalled all of my ports after doing the FreeBSD upgrade.  So the same 
versions of the ports that worked under FreeBSD 7.2 do not work right under 
8.0.  Personally, I think there is something wrong between HAL and FreeBSD 
8.0.  What that something is I really have no clue.

-Jason