Here's result.. [WAS Re: Updated hal]

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Jan 4 20:07:49 PST 2008


On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:34:21 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>  
wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:24 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> <snip>
>> >>>> I will testing with GNOME 2.20 first. A stable desktop should give  
>> a
>> >>>> better result to figure which problem is in hal or GNOME.
>> >>
>> >>> The GNOME comes up fine. If I put either blank CD or DVD and the  
>> 'blank
>> >>> CD/DVD' doesn't appear in the desktop anymore. It couldn't  
>> recogize. If
>> >>> I put USB flash drive and I can see icon pops up in nautilus, but I
>> >>> couldn't mount and double click on icon to get in. It would keeps  
>> take
>> >>> me to / instead of in USB flash drive. When I tried to mount in USB
>> >>> flash drive (vfat) and I get this below.
>> >>
>> >>> Jan  4 13:17:34 mezz kernel: mount option <uhelper> is unknown
>> >>
>> >>> I am not sure if it has to do with disable PK. I will going to our  
>> FAQ
>> >>> to learn how to debug HAL and get back to you this afternoon.
>> >
>> > Remove the --enable-umount-helper from the Makefile, and remove
>> > umount.hal from pkg-plist.  See if that helps.
>>
>> Remove the --enable-umount-helper from Makefile helps to get USB flash
>> drive to function correct. Now icon of USB flash drive appears on  
>> desktop
>> and auto-mount/open nautilus to browser in there. It works perfect. I
>> always wondering why HAL is damn faster than Windows to recognize the  
>> USB
>> flash drive. ;-)
>>
>> As for the CD/DVD, it makes no difference. It is still same with no
>> --enable-umount-helper. Do you want me to fill out more details from our
>> FAQ for this issue?
>
> At line 380 of hald/freebsd/probing/probe-volume.c, change the line to:
>
> if (! has_children)
>
> And see if that fixes this problem.

Nope, still same result.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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