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hal package

  1. Bug #56484
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 56484

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Mika Fischer (zoop) wrote : hal does not detect media change in USB-DVD-Drive

I have connected a DVD burner to my laptop by USB. The burner is recognized and available as /dev/scd0 and /dev/sg0.

However if I insert a medium in the burner (i.e. a disc with data on it or an audio CD) the disc is not automounted, no icon appears on the desktop. In fact exactly nothing happens.

This is on an up-to-date edgy installation.

Perhaps the root of the problem is that hal detects the drive as a "scsi generic" device.

I can mount CDs by double clicking on CDROM1 in Places->Computer but I have no way of using for instance sound-juicer or banshee because I assume they only look at hal to find the CD drives (and don't find any in my case).

I'll attach the lshal output. The relevant udis start with "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5e3_701_noserial_if0"

Let me know if you need more info.