CD Auto Mount

Amichai Rotman amichai at iglu.org.il
Mon Oct 1 20:14:48 UTC 2007


Hi Jack,

I checked - all OK - even the HAL Deamon...

I tried to un-check all, close, then re-check all again - same...

Any other ideas? Does the fact that gDesklets is running has anythig to do
with it?

The haled is polling /de/scd0, shouldn't be /media/cdrom0?

thanks!

Amichai

On 10/1/07, Jack Knight <jfk at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Amichai Rotman wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I can't put my finger on when or why it happened, but suddenly
> > something changed.
> > In the past, when I inserted a CD to my drive, it used to either start
> > Sound Juicer (Audio) or open a Nautilus window with the CD's content...
> >
> > Now when I insert a CD it reads it but nothing happens. No icon on the
> > desktop. I have to open Nautilus --> Computer --> CD-RW/DVD±RW Drive.
> >
> > Then the CD label appears and I have to click it to view the
> contents....
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> System->Preferences_>Removable Drives amd Media - under the "Storage" tab,
>
> Make sure the following are checked:
>
> "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged"
> "Mount removable media when inserted"
> "Auto-open files on new drives and media"
>
> Under the "Multimedia" tab, check the "Play audio CD discs when inserted
> is checked, and that the command has "sound-juicer -d %d" in.
>
> If all the above check out OK, can you find out if "hald" is running (ps
> aux | grep hald | less) ? If it isn't there's your problem. It should
> run at startup but I've seen instances where it fails, you can force it
> to run again with "sudo hald &"
>
> jfk
>
>
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