F11 and CD Failure

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 05:58 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote: 
> On 10/04/2009 10:49 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> > 2009/10/5 Gregory P. Ennis<PoMec at pomec.net>:
> >    
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>      
> >>> that all looks good - I don't think it actually mounts until you tell it
> >>> to mount - i.e. I use KDE and KDE uses a widget called 'Device Notifier'
> >>> and it wouldn't mount the inserted CD until you do something like open
> >>> the disk with 'file manager' (Dolphin). I don't know the similar actions
> >>> from GNOME. You might find that the disk is actually available and
> >>> waiting for user instruction to actually 'mount' it.
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> CDs are normally auto-mounted in Gnome. You get an icon on the
> >> desktop. But you can turn auto-mounting off.
> >>
> >> Mikkel
> >> --
> >>
> >> Mikkel,
> >>
> >> That has been my problem with hal.  I am using gnome.  hal recognizes
> >> the CD when I insert it in the drive, but it does not automount the cd.
> >> Where do you turn the auto-mount on and off?
> >>
> >> Greg
> >>
> >>      
> > Check System->Settings->Authorizations
> > I'm using Finnish language, so it can be named different. It's just my
> > translation. But it looks like that:
> > http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1277/kuvakaappausm.png
> >    
> I checked that, as I am having the same problem, but I can't seem to 
> find the
> option for auto-mounting audio cds. Is there another syntax used for 
> that option?
> 
audio CDs don't mount in the sense that data CDs do. If you run mount
when the audio CD's icon is on the screen you will not see a line for
the audio CD. 


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