From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 24 21:31:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE50310E for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:31:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91FF92C7D for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-117-74.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.117.74]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BBFF3CBA4; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id r9OLV0sU002349; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:31:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:30:59 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Warren Block Subject: Re: click-click in floppy disk drive Message-Id: <20131024233059.0c3bd75b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20131024112256.DTF88722@ms5.mc.surewest.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: leeoliveshackelford@surewest.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 21:31:08 -0000 On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:26:52 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > HAL is polling the drive to detect media changes. There are > configuration files to that can be modified to tell HAL to ignore the > device. Others can probably offer more advice on that. The information is provided here: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html > I've been > HAL-free for the last couple of years with xfce4. I know how that feels. :-) > Likewise, there is another program that scans mounted media in order to > refresh the desktop and file utilities when files have been added or > removed. Unfortunately, I can't recall what that program is called at > the moment, but it can be told to ignore certain files and directories. If I remember correctly, has that been... FAM? The file alteration monitor? Something with gamin and libfam? I know I had trouble with that stuff on a LXDE installation once... > After that, removable media can be easily unmounted. I just wonder how Gnome and KDE got the automounting stuff working decades ago, I think it even worked in FreeBSD 4 where no HAL and DBUS had been present... > If you want a desktop without all the work of installing it, PC-BSD > offers a choice of four, including xfce4. I didn't know it comes in different GUI favours, thanks for the pointer! I always thought they were very KDE-centric... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...