Re: Automounter in KDE
> Hmm.. I think the kernel automounter should be able to handle this..
But the supermount kernel module can't start the required applications like
how it work in GNOME (insert audio-cd and the gnome-cd is launched, dvd -
totem). And in gnome it definitely done without kernel-modules and in
Mandrake's kde too. And for example Mandrake don't even use supermount for
cdroms, only for floppy.
> Anyway, for me the biggest issue in all this has always been that you
> couldn't eject a cdrom with the eject button on the drive once the device
> was mounted.
Put the following line in your /etc/sysctl.conf
dev.cdrom.lock=0
and the door won't be blocked anymore, but if you remove the cd when some
filemanagers or other applications read it, those applications will still
think that the cdrom is mounted and finally you'll need to restart X or even
the whole system to get your cdrom work again.
> The system should be able to unmount the device regardsless of which
> resources are using it when you press the eject button. You know best if
> you want the disk out or not, the system shouldn't restrict you in doing
> this.
Of course all this cdrom and other media mounting/umounting is still far from
being perfect. And in long time terms it can't be explained with multiuser OS
theory.
------- Original message -------
From: Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <andersa@ellenshoej.dk>
To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Automounter in KDE
Date: 8 Август 2005 14:59
> On Monday 08 August 2005 13:19, Roman Kreisel wrote:
> > On Monday 08 August 2005 07:19, serja wrote:
> > > I doubt it configurable through gui in kde, because kde don't have any
> > > options to configure it with the exception that when you enable the
> > > device's icons at your desktop it should display a mounted cd-rom's,
> > > etc. icons at the desktop and in most distributions I've used before it
> > > worked - after inserting an CD it was automatically mounted. Because if
> > > gnome has this feature I doubt that kde hasn't it. But the question is
> > > how to make it work.
> >
> > afaik KDE _IS_ really missing it. For KDE-Applications it doesn't really
> > matter. If they access media:/cdrom for example, it's getting mounted
> > automatically by KDE. But "normal" apps, like OpenOffice.org, which don't
> > use KDE-IOSlaves but access /media/cdrom, won't see anything until you
> > mounted it manually.
>
> Hmm.. I think the kernel automounter should be able to handle this..
>
> Anyway, for me the biggest issue in all this has always been that you
> couldn't eject a cdrom with the eject button on the drive once the device
> was mounted.
>
> The system should be able to unmount the device regardsless of which
> resources are using it when you press the eject button. You know best if
> you want the disk out or not, the system shouldn't restrict you in doing
> this.
>
> Same thing with usb storage. The system should auto-unmount the device if
> you unplug it.
>
> Anders
>
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