John Summerfield wrote:
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 01:05, Gustavo Seabra wrote:I absolutely agree with you. However, I must mention that Red Hat 8 did recognize my camera as "camera" (although only in the name, I had to muont it and all, just like the usb drive).
Now, after installing FC3, my camera appears as /media/usbdisk, while my
usb drive appears as /media/SPGT-5608. Is there anyway I can at least
change the names back to "camera" and "usbstick" or "usbdisk"? (I don't
care using the /media directory.)
This inspired me.
I'm running RHEL desktop beta 1.
I unplugged my USB disk from my Ahtlon and plugged it into my test toy.
There was a whirr of disk and dmesg showed the disk was recognised by the USB subsytem. Further examination showed /media/usbdisk, and a suitable entry in /etc/fstab.
No icon on (KDE) desktop, but that's probably due to preferences.
Unplugged that, plugged in camera. Same deal, different options if fstab.
Now, the big test: Plug in BOTH. [summer@thylacine ~]$ ls -l /media/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 23 13:37 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 23 13:37 idedisk drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 09:08 usbdisk drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 09:15 usbdisk1 [summer@thylacine ~]$
Now, when I plugged this camera into my Mac it automatically started iphoto. On ubuntu Linux it started gtk-thumb.
I think RH is lagging here. I can mount stuff and get at my photos, but it should be easier.
As for the icon, in
KDE -> Control Center -> Desktop -> Behaviour -> Device Icons
you can set which device icons should appear in the desktop, but I don't see any for usbdrive. Do we have to enable icons for all mounted HD partitions to get the usbdrive icon?
Thanks, Gustavo.
-- -- ---------------------------------- Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student Chemistry Department Kansas State University ----------------------------------
