Temlakos wrote:
That's right. I discovered that last night. I put a video DVD, and then
an audio CD, into the drive. Not only did it not mount, but Nautilus
refused to mount it when I asked it to.
Every other kernel has mounted such media without a hitch.
The Gateway Performance 1000XL mounts these media just fine--and not
only that, it will launch the preferred players of these media as soon
as the mount takes place.
This illustrates the need to have more than one kernel installed on your
machine. I maintain at least three, these being the three most current.
Perhaps it also illustrats the urgency of the need to standardize laptop
equipment. I understand that, contrary to the impression one gets from
looking at the plethora of maker labels, all laptops come from a limited
list of perhaps three or four manufacturers. The big vendors will buy
these laptops and slap their labels on them. But the lack of standards
has always hindered Linux on a laptop. I recognize that some equipment
will never work. (For example, I never did get the Conexant "modem" to
work on the Dell Inspiron 1200. But when something as basic as
removable-media mounting first works, and then doesn't work, on any
given machine, that will surely frustrate anyone contemplating a move to
Linux.
Temlakos
Great. Now after I sent this around, I experimented some more. First I
connected a USB CF card reader with a digital photo on it. It mounted,
and started the photo-import program. Then I tried again with my audio
and video disks--and /now/ they will mount and play as I set them up to do.
So why didn't they mount the first time?
Did it just take connecting a USB filesystem and having that mount, to
get the kernel used to finding removable media and mounting it?
Weird. And I hope such weirdness can go away as Linux development moves
forward.
Temlakos
