CD burner and automount experiences/misadventures w/ kernel 2.6.8 on sarge
I just recently upgraded from woody to sarge and struggled to get my CD
burner (SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B, ATAPI) and automount to work. Since I
could not find a cogent and concise description in any one document,
thought I would share with the list how I finally succeeded with the
kernel 2.6.8. I originally thought I would have to upgrade to a more
recent version of the kernel since I found numerous references to a
problem with the kernel 2.6.8 and atapi cd burners. Fortunately, this
turned out not to be the case.
Following the Sarge release notes
[http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes.en.txt] for
upgrading from a previous release, I upgraded to sarge then installed
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686. I removed all references to ide-scsi from
'/etc/lilo.conf' and '/etc/modules' and added ide-cd, ide-disk and
ide-generic to '/etc/modules'. Added (or verified) my username was a
member of groups: disk, cdrom, floppy, plugdev and adm (not sure if this
last one is necessary). Use
adduser <username> <group>
as root to do this.
The gnome-volume-manager provides automount for removable devices. It,
in turn, requires udev, d-bus (dbus-1, dbus-glib-1) and HAL. Some (if
not all) of these packages were added or upgraded in the distribution
upgrade. However, the gnome-volume-manager was not installed to start
(auto-magically). I added it to the startup menu for my gnome session
using:
Applications->Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Sessions (Startup
Programs tab)
Can now automount pre-recorded CD's and burn new ones using the Nautilus
file manager. :-)
--
Carl
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