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jason_f

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Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 78

Firewire and gnome-volume-manager

I have a firewire scanner, when hotplugged, nothing happens in gnome. I have 'run when scanner is plugged' checked, but I get nothing.

Does gnome-volume-manager work with firewire devices? or is it just my scanner? (Canon 2540 photo)

mouse256

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From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: Firewire and gnome-volume-manager

I don't know about scanners, but my firefire external HD is recognised perfectly by gnome-volume-manager. So it does listen for firewire devices. Maybe you'll need to add something to udev to make gnome-volume-manager know it's a scanner?
I have a scsi scanner, so I won't try hotplugging it

jason_f

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Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 78

Re: Firewire and gnome-volume-manager

Hm....my firewire camcorder doesn't seem to autorun either...are you, or anyone else, on 'testing' packages and gnome 2.16 with this working?

stavrosg

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From: Rhodes, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-01

Posts: 330

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Re: Firewire and gnome-volume-manager

That's a bug in HAL, not g-v-m.
There is a patch floating around, and should be easily found with a bit googling.

I have a firewire HD enclosure, too, but I rarely use it, so it didn't bug me enough to actually do something about it.