[kde-linux] Mechanism that mounts USB flashdrives

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:51, Tobias Bocanegra wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Douglas Phillipson <phillipd at oem.doe.gov> wrote:
> > I have been having some trouble mounting flash drives under KDE on some
> > computers.  My desktop boxes nicely pop up a "USB Stick" Icon when I
> > insert a USB memory stick, but my HP Pavilion laptop doesn't.  They both
> > have:
> >
> > Fedora Core 4 with latest updates.
> > 2.6.17 Kernel
> > KDE 3.5.3
> >
> > The USB stick does get recognized by the kernel according to
> > /var/log/messages and I can manually mount it but no USB Stick Icon
> > appears on the desktop as it does on my Desktop machines.
> >
> > I would like to understand the mechanism that does this whole thing.  I
> > presume its a HAL function that passes the information to some KDE
> > daemon but I'm not sure. Where are the config files that define where
> > the mount point is located, where the file for the Icon is located, etc.
> >   From start to finish I would like to understand the whole process if
> > anyone is patient enough to clue me in or point me to a FAQ somewhere
> > that explains how it all works under KDE.
> >
> > Thank you very much
> >
> > Doug Phillipson
>
> make sure the 'KDED Media Manager' is running. configurable in
> 'control center/KDE Components/Service Manager'
>
> regards, toby

All of that is running on this end, as is the HAL daemon. But nothing at all 
happens in KDE when I plug in removeable media. As reported before. It works 
fine under Gnome, so all of the system components are there and working.