Re: KDE, Debian and USB drives.
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Larry Garfield wrote:
>
>> And yes, real documentation on what the current recommended setup is this
>> week to make removable media work in Linux in a way that's not 30 years
>> out of date is extremely lacking. It wasn't that long ago thot hotplug
>> was The Answer. It's not a Debian-specific problem, it's just that Sid
>> doesn't have a "do it this way and shaddup" pre-configured setup the way
>> Fedora/SuSE/Mandriva/Kubuntu do so we notice it more when the mood
>> changes this week.
>
> If it makes you feel better, Kubuntu (my distro of choice) isn't
> documenting
> this any better _or_ giving you a better pre-configured setup. It might
> (and I think probably does) work out of the box with a fresh install, but
> there's a ton of people having trouble with it right now (yesterday I
> completely lost the ability to mount a usb stick - not an automounting
> problem, because it doesn't even generate a kernel message).
fyi, I downgraded my kernel from 2.6.15-14 to 2.6.15-12 and USB sticks are
seen again.
--
derek
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