Regarding USB

[John Galloway]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Chakkaradeep C C wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On 3/22/06, John Galloway <jrg at dbengines.com> wrote:
> Unless I'm completely confused about all this (always a possibility)
> HAL doesn't actually mount devices at all.  it only produces a record
> for the device that it can send out to processes (like say gnome- 
> volume-manager)
> that are interested in device adds/removes.  Gnome-volume-manager  
> calls
> pmount-hal which uses the hal data you have merged into the record for
> this new usb device to mount them (if you have its configure params
> set to do so of course, use gnome-volume-properties or GConf-editor).
>
> thanks John for the reply :). Ok, so you  mean to say, that i can  
> write a python dbus service,listen to HAL add,remove devices and  
> grab those signals and achieve what i want?
yes you could do that.  Or just use gnome-volume-manager to do so for  
you.
does Yoper include the gnome desktop?  (gnome-volume-manager doesn't
itself have a UI component, it gets its settings from GConf, its just  
a daemon).
  -jrg
>
>   -jrg
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 4:39 AM, Chakkaradeep C C wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> in my Yoper Distro, i have /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10- 
> storage-policy.fdi where i see what should HAL do when it detects  
> the devices.
>
> In yoper, the usb gets detected but it does not get mounted and  
> doesnt notify to the user. so , i thought that HAL should be  
> informed where to mount, so i tried adding these lines to /usr/ 
> share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-storage-policy.fdi ,
>
> ****************
>     <match key="storage.bus" string="usb">
>         <merge key=" storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</ 
> merge>
>         <merge key="volume.policy.desired_mount_point"  
> type="string">/media/usb</merge>
>         <merge key=" volume.policy.mount_filesystem"  
> type="string">vfat</media>
>         <merge  
> key="volume.policy.mount_option.fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_ 
> t" type="bool">true</merge>
>         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime"  
> type="bool">true</merge>
>         <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync"  
> type="bool">true</merge>
>         <merge key="volume.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</ 
> merge>
>       </match>
>
> ****************
>
> i restarted hal service, plugged in my usb device, but it doesnt  
> get mounted.....
>
> i would be happy if somebody can help me....
>
> thanks in advance....
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Chaks,
> Yoper Ltd.
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