I recently loaded Mandrake 9.1 and all seems to be good for the most part, buuuuut I do not like the way Mandrakes device links are on the desktop. For instance rather then having jus the text CR-ROM and DVD I have CD_ROM mounted at /mnt/cdrom and CD_ROM mounted at /mnt/cdrom2

Is there any way in Mandrake to have the text for these devices displayed in a "normal" way between the floppy, two CD drives, sandisk card reader, scanner, and netcam, the desktop reads like paragraphs in a book.

I think you can change the names, the same way as name of any file you have on desktop.

No it won't let me change them. I disabled dynamic destop, that seems to work, I then created links of my own, but now for some reason niether my handspring visor, nor my flash card reader work.

This is a royal pain, I never experienced things like this with RedHat 7.3.

It has nothing to do with Mandrake - it is KDE 3.1.
Go to Look and Feel - Behaviour - Uncheck - Devices - Show on desktop - sorted.

Acxtually it isn't KDE 3.1.1 as I have it installed on RedHat 7.3, it is the dynamic desktop package that does it. Turning it off just removes everything, but then if I create my own icons they can't can't be mounted. My flash card reader and visor no longer function! Sorry not sorted.

Going to put RedHat back on the machine, it was reliable, predictable, easily configured without any weird disapearing devices.

I don't understand - what is the Dynamic Desktop? I had similar irritation and just disabled the Devices on Desktop. Those annoying icons went, and I made my own links (to /nmt/cdrom etc).

I also have a Sandisk and I just use - Start - Configuration - Hardware -KwikDisk. A little icon opens in the Sys Tray - right-click and you should be able to mount or unmount any hardware.

I got it sorted. I had to add the san disk card reader to fstab. I also had to create the symlinks for /dev/pilot. Then I had to change the mount options for my cd burner, and DVD drive, supermount would mount them and then I just couldn't change the text for the icons. It's weird but it was all screwed up, I also had to go to KControl center and disable view desktop devices. But that didn't stop the scanner, netcam, and visor form thumping an icon on my desktop everytime I used one of them, this would rearange all the icons on my desktop. It was a bit annoying.

Anyway it's all sorted out after a few hours of tinkering all in all Mandrake is alright.

Sorry to bring this up, but I'm not too fond of the dynamic desktop either. How do you turn it off?