Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:15:43 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: Khairil Yusof <kaeru@streamyx.com> Subject: Re: Looking for something to do? Message-ID: <1072242943.31677.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <opr0n30min8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> References: <1071901810.451.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1072215739.1268.8.camel@gyros> <20031224040230.GB9533@wolverine.home.net> <opr0n30min8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net>
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--=-7CXApN4xBnZfsvi8Qj8Q Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 23:27, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:02:30 +0800, Khairil Yusof <kaeru@streamyx.com>=20 > wrote: >=20 > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:42:19PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > >> Once the volumes are mounted, they will show up. That should have > >> worked for a long time. However, I was trying to add the ability of > >> putting user-mountable volumes (e.g. CD-ROM) on the desktop before the= y > >> are mounted (giving the user the option of mounting them from the > >> desktop). This is not working for some reason. > > > > Here's what I got: > > > > User mountable drives show up in the Computer folder, and double > > clicking on them does try to mount the drives. >=20 > Ahh, I never knew it was in the Computer folder, which I thought it was=20 > supposed to be on the desktop. Now, it's there in the Computer folder and= =20 > I am able to mount it, so it works! When, I mounted it by either click=20 > right (menu) -> mount or double click, then a new CD icon will appear in=20 > the desktop just like if I mount it by the command line. But, one major=20 > problem is that I can't umount it because there's no option to do that bu= t=20 > there has an eject option in the right click menu. The eject doesn't work= ,=20 > I get the error following: >=20 > Failed to start command (Click on details) -> Failed to execute child=20 > process "eject" (No such file or directory) Right, but it should unmount none-the-less. I will fix the "eject" problem (i.e. remove the error, but we really don't have an eject command). >=20 > After I clicked 'OK' from the error msg, then it will umount or the mount= =20 > died by itself. Weird. Right. Linux has an eject command that will actually open the CD tray.=20 The closest we have the camcontrol command. This, of course, only works with SCSI CD-ROMs. >=20 > Khairil, thanks for input about Computer folder that got me check on the=20 > CD stuff and should help Joe more. :-) Indeed. I had never though to check there. It's good to know my new VFS code works. Now the question becomes, should I add an additional check to see if the owner of the mount point is the current user? Joe >=20 > Cheers, > Mezz >=20 > > Apart for vfs syctl, in fstab, I had to fill in the full path to my use= r > > mounted dir. > > > > /dev/da1s1 /home/kaeru/mnt/camera msdos rw,noauto 0 0 > > > > I can't however create any type of link to it on the desktop. It fails > > with a "Unsupported Operation" on a file operation message. --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-7CXApN4xBnZfsvi8Qj8Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/6SD/b2iPiv4Uz4cRAjWyAJ9n3OtjDgJ6wpWO4eutpo+NmuAh7gCeIgrb GdEkj77E9Vk+f95q37JSs/Q= =b7R3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7CXApN4xBnZfsvi8Qj8Q--
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