[solved]complete arch noob! 2 smallish question! Im sure you can help!

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-09 22:38:27

ive used loads of distros and different unixex, enjoying arch so far!

firstly, I cant get HAL to work with my usb pen. ive got it pickin up cd's and dvd's fine, but it ignores my usb

[danny@archlinux ~]$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 041e:4106 Creative Technology, Ltd Nomad MuVo
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
[danny@archlinux ~]$

so it is recognised.

my second question is how can i get flash workin with opera? its fine in firefox, and ive followed the wiki, but no luck!

thanks in advance

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2010-02-18 14:29:21)

finferflu · 2008-03-09 22:42:22

Regarding the first question, have you checked this page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL ?
There's a troublshooting section regarding USB sticks, that can come handy

As for Opera, as far as I know the support for Flash is broken until version 9.50, which at the moment is in pre-release stage, and available in the unstable repository.

dyscoria · 2008-03-09 22:42:57

I think your problem could be related to groups.

Do this as root:

gpasswd -a USERNAMEHERE storage

Log out (possibly restart) and it should work.

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-09 22:43:37)

dmartins · 2008-03-10 00:14:08

I think after adding yourself to the storage group you need to log out, restart hal and log back in.. Or just restart.

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-10 21:48:47

ok, i can deal with no flash in opera,

but id already followed that link for the usb pen, thanks finferflu, but it made no difference. thats how i got my cd drives to work.

I added myself to storage group, restarted hal, rebooted. still no joy.

I have pc-bsd running on a second partition, and it picks it up fine. any other ideas?

lucke · 2008-03-10 22:32:17

Just to be sure: you created that preferences.fdi as shown in the wiki?

Check whether your usb pen is recognized by the kernel (connect it and run "dmesg").

You need to have sd_mod and usb_storage modules loaded. Check lsmod.

praka123 · 2008-03-11 09:35:31

@ninjaprawn:
I have faced kdemod with hal not detecting CD/DVD drives and usb drives,players.
what worked for me is to make below file and restart ur archlinux.then post the reply here:
what DE are u using Gnome or kde?
anyways,press ALT+F2 to get run dialog,
inside ,for Gnome users run:

gksu gedit  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

OR
In kde,

kdesu kate  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

then copy paste below codes exactly,save the file and exit

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
 <deviceinfo version="0.2">
 


<device>
   <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
   <match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
   <merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
   <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>
   </match>
   </match>
</device>

 <device> 
   <match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
   <match key="volume.size" compare_lt="8000000000">
   <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
   </match>
   <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
   </match>
   </match>
   <match key="volume.size" compare_ge="8000000000">
   <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">false</merge>
   </match>
   <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
   <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">false</merge>
   </match>
   </match>
   </match>
</device>


</deviceinfo>

reply here if this works!
I think this is a serious bug in archlinux

Last edited by praka123 (2008-03-11 11:56:22)

rusty · 2008-03-11 11:44:46

For flash and Opera, get the 9.5 beta release, it's in the unstable repo but works without any hitches.

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-11 23:19:33

thanks praka123!!! all workin now. im usin kde!

i will try opera 9.5 once i get my printer workin! its a slightly higher priority!

anyone else got a lexmark?? mines a z615. cant figure out the driver i should be usin, or what groups i need 2 be a member of for printing!

praka123 · 2008-03-12 04:03:11

^gr8 that it is working for u I hope arch HAL team will take notice of this.
also,can someone point the devels towards this thread ?

OK,I filed a bug report with archlinux BTS(bug tracking system):
Here is the link:
FS#9821 - HAL does not automount CD/DVD drives,USB drives in kde(kdemod)
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9821

Last edited by praka123 (2008-03-12 04:31:40)

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-13 19:56:20

opera 9.5??? i cant find it!!

I edited my /etc/pacman.conf file to include unstabel, saved and closed it. then ran;
pacman -Ss opera

but it just listed opera 9.25 which i have installed, and opera 9.26 static. along with various other none related items.

what am i doing wrong? or is it an ABS??

Misfit138 · 2008-03-13 19:59:17

It's in unstable, called opera-devel.
You must have misconfigured your pacman.conf
Make sure to uncomment both [Unstable] and the include= lines

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-13 20:55:41

i did that, its sayin its not found!

anyone usin opera 9.5 unstable??

Misfit138 · 2008-03-13 22:33:30

I have it installed.
Did you try

pacman -Sy opera-devel

?

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-14 19:37:48

Misfit138 wrote:

I have it installed.
Did you try
pacman -Sy opera-devel
?

thanks mate! i didnt realise u needed the "y". why is the y needed??

Misfit138 · 2008-03-14 20:27:24

You added a repo but never synchronized pacman's database.

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