automount question

samuel verstraete samuel.verstraete at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 07:59:55 CET 2007


On 3/7/07, BuraphaLinux Server <buraphalinuxserver at gmail.com> wrote:
> hal 0.5.8.1 needs a lot of patches to function at all.  Do you have at
> least these:
>
> hal-0.5.8.1-dont-crash-on-cdrom-drives.patch
> hal-0.5.8.1-fixdbus.patch
>
> I also had to make a patch so it could find dmidecode, since they hard-code the
> path to that and it didn't match my system.  I applied more patches,
> but those two
> (and the dmidecode patch I made) were enough to make CD-ROM drives work.
> Like much software today, you cannot build what really works just from
> the released
> source code.  They like to claim open source but actually it should be called
> broken source....

Just checked my distro... no patches and it works like charm. So....
in anyway... this is hardly the list to discuss this and you should
take this to hal mailinglist or whatever...


>
>
> On 3/6/07, Eugene Zagidullin <e.asphyx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 00:45:45 +0100
> > "Amir Sabbagh" <almucantarat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > AS> i tried to install it but i didn't succeed...HAL is getting me mad.
> > AS> i think i'll create 2 new launchers to mount and umount my usb pen
> > AS>
> >
> > Also, look at uwd (http://download.zenwalk.org/people/jp/) and Zenwalk's
> > customized udev rules (i don't know where to get package, only iso
> > available :( )
> >
> > Another way: install pmount and udev rule from here:
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> >  Eugene                          mailto:e.asphyx at gmail.com
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