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Harey

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From: Bavaria, Germany

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 359

[SOLVED] KDE 4.5: Device Notifier does not show CDs anymore

During one of the last updates KDE's Device Notifier lost the ability to display CDs I put into my CD drives. USB sticks  do show up correctly. DBUS and HAL are running, the device Manager is configured to show up all removable medias. I can manually mount the CDs by using the mount command. Also if I connect the drive to my virtualbox XP installation they autoplay correctly. So this is no hardware failure.

I just want to put a CD in and the device manager should pop up and inform me of the actions that are possible. KDE 4.4 did this, KDE 4.5 does not. I am using the testing repo and my system is up-to-date.

Any advice?

Harvey

Last edited by Harey (2010-10-22 07:41:47)

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xvello

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Registered: 2010-05-15

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.5: Device Notifier does not show CDs anymore

Hello,

The issue might be in hal and not in KDE, see this thread :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=106489

Harey

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From: Bavaria, Germany

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 359

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.5: Device Notifier does not show CDs anymore

xvello,

The issue might be in hal

I could hug you

You're absolutely right. Hal was the culprit. Under /etc/hal/fdi/information/ there were two files "media-check-disable-storage_model_<my CDs model name>" and both of them had a line:

<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>

Setting them to

<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">true</merge>

reenabled the notification of KDE's device Notifier.

As users always say: I never changed this
Marking this as solved.

Thanks a lot
Harvey

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 688

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.5: Device Notifier does not show CDs anymore

OK I had/have the same problem and while now it at least recognises it, but I get this error: /media/cd folder not found.
I don't have any idea why this is so. Shouldn't the folder be created automatically?
Solved please refer to: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 16#p849616

Last edited by Primoz (2010-11-06 18:11:41)

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brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: [SOLVED] KDE 4.5: Device Notifier does not show CDs anymore

I've been cursing KDE for several weeks, and eventually I found this thread. Stupid HAL...

Thanks guys.

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