USB icon not showing on desktop

shahgols · 11-25-2007, 11:52 PM

Hi all,

I'm on 7.10. When I plug in my Sony voice recorder, I don't see any icon come up on the desktop. lsusb shows my Sony voice recorder, so I guess that Ubuntu is seeing it, but where is the icon or how can I access it? Also, Nautilus doesn't show it on it's side bar either. I'm kind of new to Linux and don't know where to go and what to do from here. Thanks in advance for your help.

Mountain Man · 11-26-2007, 09:50 AM

What do you get if you run the following from the command line?

Code:

fdisk -l

crash_override_me · 11-26-2007, 01:03 PM

try using 'mount' to see if your device is mounted or not..!!
if it is, then u can access it in /media/dir, where dir is the place where it is mounted..!

shahgols · 12-13-2007, 10:22 PM

Sorry for the very late response.

lsusb shows:

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Bus 008 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 054c:0271 Sony Corp. 
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 413c:3200 Dell Computer Corp. 
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 413c:2105 Dell Computer Corp. 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

So it sees the Sony device.

fdisk -l shows:

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        9605    77152131   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            9606        9726      971932+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

mount shows:

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/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusesmb on /home/mina/Network type fuse.fusesmb (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,max_read=32768)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

shahgols · 12-13-2007, 10:34 PM

Also, if it's any indication of a problem, I just installed Win XP under vmware and Device Manager doesn't show any USB devices at all.

dasy2k1 · 12-21-2007, 06:22 PM

seems that HALD is turned off by default in 7.10 not sure why....
it may not even bee installed,

if not get it, or turn it on then it should work.
i had the same problems but that solved it