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Month: August 2010

Re: [trinity-users] Removable USB Devices

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:15:38 -0500
> Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>> Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One additional question; do you have the kde-trinity package
>>>>>>>> installed
>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>> your system?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Timothy Pearson
>>>>>>>> Trinity Desktop Project
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No, I have few meta packages installed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then there is a very good chance you do not have hal installed.
>>>>>>> Hal
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> required for the USB auto-detect and a few other power management
>>>>>>> features
>>>>>>> to function.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>> I do have hal, hal-info, hal-trinity,  libhal1, libhal-storage1 are
>>>>> all
>>>>> installed.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> Can you post a list of all *-trinity packages that you have
>>>>> installed?
>>>>> I
>>>>> am almost certain a package is missing somewhere, as it all works
>>>>> perfectly for me on my up-to-date test system.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> snip
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, when you click Log Out, are there any hibernate and/or suspend
>>>> buttons visible on the bottom of the logout dialog?  That is how I
>>>> usually
>>>> determine if the Trinity/HAL bindings are installed and working.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>> Both hibernate and suspend are in the logout dialog.
>>>
>
>
>>> One more item that may be of use here...can you send me a screenshot of
>>> the following kcontrol page?
>>> Control Center->KDE Components->Service Manager
>>>
>>> I am looking for any missing items such as "KDED Media Manager".
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>
>
> KDED Media Manager is there, but was not running, I started it and got
> the pop up to open it or do nothing, I chose to open it and get the
> error 'permissions denied', also the usb drive icon is not showing on
> the desktop.
>
> --
> Jimmy Johnson
>
> Debian Lenny Trinity KDE 3.5.11 at sda13
> Registered Linux User #380263
>
>
>

To fix the "Permissions Denied" error that pops up, remove the entries
that you made in /etc/fstab earlier.  See
http://readlist.com/lists/archlinux.org/arch/0/2865.html

Tim