I am using a stripped down version of PClinuxOs9 (home made) Wm is Xfce.

I'd like to get following working:

1) When a audio Cd inserted XMMS auto plays it

2) When a DVD is inserted player auto plays it

3) When a USB stick is inserted fm kicks off


I want to avoide kernel patching (autofs). i'm thinking of using ivman.

Q1
Why does ivman wiki specify pmount if ivman does the automounting?

Q2
When tring to install pmount "make" says missing libdbus-1.so.0 is in /lib?

Q3
why can't udev do auto mounting?

Any help is much appreciated.

Ben

I don't know anything about PCLinuxOS, but on most modern distributions, there's no kernel patching involved for autofs. There are usually pre-built packages for automount and a pre-built kernel module for autofs.
Because ivman has to call an external program to do the mounting and pmount allows a regular user to mount a device that does not appear in fstab. You could use regular old mount, but it doesn't have the same flexibility.
Sounds like you might need to install D-BUS.
It can, it's just a pain in the neck to set up and isn't as flexible as the D-BUS/HAL/volume manager combination.