[PLUG] Permissions Denied - CDROM

Richard C. Steffens rsteff at comcast.net
Sat Oct 6 18:45:36 UTC 2007


Rich Shepard wrote:

>    I wonder if SuSE is using HAL. That's new with Slackware-12.0 and the
> upgrade instructions are to remove all optical drive references from
> /etc/fstab to avoid confusing the automatic detection of devices. If I
> understand correctly, HAL also detects USB, Firewire, and other devices when
> they're connected.

Recovering from my forgetting about Google for this sort of thing, I
find that yes, SuSE 10.1 does use HAL.

I have no problem with my USB memory stick. When I stick it into a USB
port a Konqueror window opens and shows the content.


-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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