Mandriva2007/KDE3.5.4 Silent Automount Desired

conn-fused · 03-26-2007, 04:13 AM

Hi all,

I'm having trouble getting automounting to work as I'd like it to on a Mandriva 2007 system running KDE 3.5.4. When I insert a CD, and KDE is active, I get an undesirable popup asking me what I want to do with the CD (eg open in a new window, do nothing, ...).

I'd much prefer the silent automount behaviour I enjoyed under Mandriva 2006/KDE 3.3(?). No konqueror window is required, and I certainly don't want that popup window.

I'd appreciate some guidelines on how to get KDE to change it's behaviour. Thanks!

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-26-2007, 10:31 PM

Control Centre --> Peripherals --> Storage Media --> Click the Advanced tab, then uncheck enable medium autostart after mount

conn-fused · 03-27-2007, 07:12 AM

No, that's not it; in fact, I've already tried that. The box still pops up.

Any other ideas?

I think modifying the [Media] section in kdesktoprc might help, but I haven't read enough about it yet.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-27-2007, 10:58 AM

Control Centre --> Kde Components --> Media Notification Daemon, just uncheck the box.

Codewalker · 03-31-2007, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Control Centre --> Kde Components --> Media Notification Daemon, just uncheck the box.

I guess you are not getting the point. We want silent automount. It means that if i insert cdrom, it is immedeately mounted, without any windows, questions, etc. so if i do, for example, ls /media/cdrom0 - it shows something.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-31-2007, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Codewalker

I guess you are not getting the point. We want silent automount. It means that if i insert cdrom, it is immedeately mounted, without any windows, questions, etc. so if i do, for example, ls /media/cdrom0 - it shows something.

I do get the point and it's what I'm trying to help you to achieve.

Codewalker · 04-01-2007, 12:16 AM

I've found the problem. Remove any cdrom entries in /etc/fstab. Get properties of any cdrom inserted (rmb click on device), then "Mounting" -> "Mount automatically".
But i still don't know how to make static mountpoints. This should be configured in hal...