On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:50:36 kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
ok, this is only about 12.1, have not tried it in 11.4:
Here is an fyi re hal. first i disabled it in system services and i could still see my cd/dvd drive in /dev/sr0, also anything i plugged in the usb ports, *with the exception of my camera*. in step 2 i removed everything hal in Yast, the only complaint was about kpowersave, it got clobbered, but all usb devices and cd/dvd and chip card devices that were visible with hal are still visible without hal. The interesting thing is that, in 12.1, when gnome or kde4 are fired up, the camera does not exactly show up as a storage device, instead it appears as something else, in kde4 it was a webcam, don't remember what it appeared as in gnome. so perhaps kde3 just can not pick up these newfangled notifications,eh?
This is because without hal kde uses another method to determine the type of device. Any device with name starting with sr* is thought to be a hard drive. If you want to restore the previous behavior, use the hal-enabled package from here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3:/HAL-enabled/openSUSE_1 2.1/ getting a little closer: I added the site to my repositories, then installed all the files from that depositoryabove, all the kdebase3 shtuff, plus two more files listed in the
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 08:59:05 pm Ilya Chernykh wrote: directory. Now i get a popup about a new medium detected,the medium type is a Camera, the two options available are opening it inj a new window, or browse it in Gwenview. gwenview just shows empty, opening in a new window produces a conq window with one folder in it. the window is titled system:/media/camera, has one folder named "USB PTP Class Camera", and clicking on it just opens up one more folder named exactly the same, ad infinitum!! below is the logs "tail" , from /var/log/messages: ............................ 12point1-home:/home/plain # tail -f /var/log/messages Jan 17 22:02:56 12point1-home dbus[996]: [system] Activating service name='org.f reedesktop.Hal' (using servicehelper) Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home kernel: [ 801.456024] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home kernel: [ 801.571419] usb 2-2: New USB device fou nd, idVendor=04cb, idProduct=022e Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home kernel: [ 801.571423] usb 2-2: New USB device str ings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home kernel: [ 801.571427] usb 2-2: Product: USB PTP C amera Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home kernel: [ 801.571430] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 592D 36323432110505EC0320211B78 Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 6: "/sys/devices /pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2" Jan 17 22:03:19 12point1-home mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 6 was not an MTP device Jan 17 22:03:21 12point1-home dbus[996]: [system] Failed to activate service 'or g.freedesktop.Hal': timed out Jan 17 22:03:37 12point1-home su: (to root) plain on /dev/pts/4 Jan 17 22:04:00 12point1-home su: (to root) plain on /dev/pts/5 Jan 17 22:04:27 12point1-home acpid: 1 client rule loaded Jan 17 22:04:37 12point1-home kernel: [ 880.070026] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, de vice number 6 Jan 17 22:04:47 12point1-home kernel: [ 890.056024] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd Jan 17 22:04:47 12point1-home kernel: [ 890.171526] usb 2-2: New USB device fou nd, idVendor=04cb, idProduct=022e Jan 17 22:04:47 12point1-home kernel: [ 890.171530] usb 2-2: New USB device str ings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 17 22:04:47 12point1-home kernel: [ 890.171534] usb 2-2: Product: USB PTP C amera Jan 17 22:04:47 12point1-home kernel: [ 890.171537] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 592D 36323432110505EC0320211B78 Jan 17 22:04:47 12point1-home mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 7: "/sys/devices /pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2" Jan 17 22:04:48 12point1-home mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 7 was not an MTP device .......................... d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org