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Old 11-12-2005, 07:49 PM   #1
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udev/hal/ivman, want appearing desktop icons w/rox-filer


Hi,

I've setup udev, hal, and ivman.

Whenever I put in a cdrom, for instance, I want an icon to pop up on my desktop with a link to the cdrom directory. Ivman is mounting my cdroms and unmounting them properly.

I've found this:
http://gobo.kundor.org/kb/index.php/HAL%20HowTo

It seems to be a script that makes icons appear in the ROX panel. From what I understand, the panel is the bar that by default goes across the bottom of your screen. Well, i tried to get this working as a step forward but could not, nothing ever ended up appearing on the panel. It's not where i want the icons to appear anyways.

Is it possible to get desktop items to appear?

I am using fvwm with the fvwm-crystal theme. ROX is installed and directory browsing seems to be working fine with it. I am also running Gentoo.


My next problem is a slight ivman problem, my cdroms mount perfectly, but my removable devices such as flash drives, don't always show up as the same device. Sometimes when i put in my flash drive it is /dev/sdc1, and sometimes it is /dev/sdd1. I thought the job of UDEV was to make sure that removable devices always get the same device. I read this in the udev wiki:

"Particularly with USB, devices get assigned to a device node (/dev/sda) in the order that they are hooked into the system starting at boot, and continuing through the life of the uptime. With the situation of USB gadgets being plugged into and out of the system dynamically, there is no guarantee that a USB gadget will be assigned to the same node everytime it is plugged in. This can negate the effectiveness of /etc/fstab and play havoc with the scripting/programming of the gadgets."

Therefore it sounds like my udev is not doing its job, or maybe I do just not have it setup correctly? Because IVMAN won't work properly if whenever i plug the device in it switches locations.

Any help and suggestions for either problem would be greatly appreciate. Thank you!
George
 
Old 11-12-2005, 11:17 PM   #2
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Re: udev/hal/ivman, want appearing desktop icons w/rox-filer

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Originally posted by hedpe
Sometimes when i put in my flash drive it is /dev/sdc1, and sometimes it is /dev/sdd1. I thought the job of UDEV was to make sure that removable devices always get the same device.
You're misunderstanding the quoted passage. Yes udev can guarantee that a device is always accessible through the same name, but that's normally not configured by default for removable devices. How could it be? Udev has no way of knowing what or how many removable devices you have.

To get static device names, you need to set up custom udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules. There are lots of different pieces of information you can use in the rules, but you want something that uniquely identifies a particular piece of hardware, like a serial number. As an example, here's a rule I used for a JumpDrive"
Code:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="L252280108120", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="jumpdrive", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
This creates a /dev/jumpdrive symlink that always points to whatever device node the JumpDrive is on.

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Because IVMAN won't work properly if whenever i plug the device in it switches locations.
This is not accurate. Ivman can get all the information it needs on a device by querying HAL. In fact, that's the entire point of having a HAL-aware volume manager. If your rules don't work when the device changes name, then your rules are badly written. If you post the problem rules, maybe somebody will be able to help you adjust them.
 
Old 11-13-2005, 09:35 AM   #3
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very helpful response Ada, thank you

as a first step I am going to get udev working properly to always put a device in the same place, like my flash drive

after that then I will take a step towards fixing ivman and will post back

in the meantime, anyone get appearing desktop icons with rox-filer?
 
  


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