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becho4

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Tuesday, December 13th 2005, 7:36pm

kde 3.5 media manager

The new kde 3.5 media manager works fine for me with usb pendrives but I have no success with cd or dvd media.
I have been looking for documentation about the media manager but found absolutely nothing so I don't know what to do to solve it.

Please, can someone tell me where to find documentation or how to solve this?
Many thanks in advance :rolleyes:

coco-loco

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Thursday, December 15th 2005, 9:32am

I suggest that you first check out your devices and compare them to your fstab. It happens with some distros that they forget to make some changes in the fstab after some naming conventions have changed.

Open a console and make a

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ls /dev

In the list of devices should appear something like cdrom, cdrom0 or something similiar.
Make sure that the fstab-line for your media is matching the device. If not, correct the line in an editor (you need to be root ).

Don't forget to use

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mount -a

after the change in order to activate the changes.

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Thursday, December 15th 2005, 2:25pm

Thanks for your suggestion coco-loco.

Here is my fstab

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,users,auto,umask=666 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part4 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

/dev/maxtor /media/maxtor ext3 users,exec,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/dvdwriter auto users,exec,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/dvd auto users,exec,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto users,exec,noauto 0 0


As you can see here I have the correct device nodes at /dev
I don't see what can be wrong. I can mount and umount media manually.

# ls -l /dev/cdrom*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-12-13 21:03 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-12-13 21:03 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdd

/dev/cdroms:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-12-13 21:03 cdrom -> ../hdd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-12-13 21:03 cdrom0 -> ../hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-12-13 21:03 cdrom1 -> ../hdd


When I plug in a pendrive kde presents a screen with the typical options.
If I click on 'open in a new window' the device is mounted and konqueror browses it.
with mount I can see the new mount point:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=winnt,uid=500,gid=100,umask=077)
and a look at fstab tells me that no new entries where added.

The difference between the pendrive and de cd or dvd media is that the device node for the pendrive is created when it is pluged in but the cd/dvd device nodes are created at boot time.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "becho4" (Dec 15th 2005, 2:26pm)