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_12... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org