DVD and CD not automounting in F7

[Andrea Mastellone]

Hi,

it is about four months that my fedora box does not automount dvd and
cd's. It is a F7, with regular updates.

The USB sticks and disks correctly automounts. Running lshal -m, I see
that USB devices are detected and mounted, but CD and DVD are not
reported when inserted in the drive (a simple IDE internal DVD/CD writer
 in a notebook).

By googling, there is a number of cases relative both to hald and
autofs, and so on, but no one gave me an hint :(

Some similar case and suggestion ? Thanks in advance.

Andrea

[Bill Davidsen]

Andrea Mastellone wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  it is about four months that my fedora box does not automount dvd and
>  cd's. It is a F7, with regular updates.
>  
>  The USB sticks and disks correctly automounts. Running lshal -m, I see
>  that USB devices are detected and mounted, but CD and DVD are not
>  reported when inserted in the drive (a simple IDE internal DVD/CD writer
>   in a notebook).
>  
>  By googling, there is a number of cases relative both to hald and
>  autofs, and so on, but no one gave me an hint :(
>  
>  Some similar case and suggestion ? Thanks in advance.
>   
Probably you changed the "preferences" in your window manager to turn 
off automount. Or some update did it for you. This is one of the first 
things I do, since having the system, WM or hal, checking for new media 
can create problems with burning.

There was a discussion of this on another list, the mode of the burner 
can get changed, streaming can be interrupted, etc.

If you want to enable that behavior, start in Preferences, I don't 
remember if it's Hardware or Look&Feel, but it's there, something like 
"mounting of media or such."

-- 
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