Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Of removable devices | From | Ian Soboroff <> | Date | 17 Feb 2000 09:06:14 -0500 |
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David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> writes:
> The situation with removable devices is pretty bad. Redhat 6.x has TWO > packages to "solve" it. They are magicdev ( part of GNOME ) and autorun > ( KDE ). > [...] > autorun/magicdev is started when the KDE/GNOME desktop is started ( > startx or > xdm/kdm/gdm login ). They both wait for an inserted CD and then mount it > and > optionaly run the file /<cd-mount-point>/autorun . > They unmount and eject the CD when the : > - eject command is executed > - user clicks on "eject" in the context menu of the CD-drive icon > - maybe some other cases I don't know
never mind that magicdev is murder to laptops on batteries, and always filled my syslog with handy "no media" messages on every CDROM poll. gads.
ian
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