Automagical mounting no longer working

[CB]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:15 -0300, rodrigo ahumada wrote:

> >
> >- are external (usb/firewire) drives supposed to be automatically
> >mounted under /media by default?
> 
> i guess it's so, i got floopy, cdrom,hd there...
> 
> >
> >- if so, why might it be that mine aren't, until I've run
> >pmount /dev/sdaX once (which I have to do after each reboot).
> >- does the automounting only happen when someone is logged into gnome?
> 
> gnome-volume-manager automounts (it runs automatically pmount and makes an 
> icon in the desktop), if you don't use gnome, you can put it in the init of 
> session (.xsession).
> 

Do I have to configure gnome-volume-manager to know about my firewire
drive? Currently it does not mount the drive until I have run pmount
manually at least once. After that, it does mount automatically, which
is strange.