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

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Jan 4 20:16:32 PST 2008


On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:11:42 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>  
wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 22:08 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Then you'll need to get the debugging output on the FAQ.  Also, look at
> my recent email, and get the lshal comparisons as that may shed some
> light on why this is not working.

Will do.

> Even though the discs don't "mount" can you still burn them?

I haven't tried that yet. I will doing it with your update hal diff.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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