At 22:29 Uhr -0600 18.12.2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:(My real goal is to be able to enter my memory card and have it automatically mounted and maybe even have a X11 filemanager open to that directory.)And plugin in jumpdrive/flash disk or CD or DVD ... and do the right thing. Does anyone in NetBSD world do this?
I have deployed an amd(8) based scheme like yours, and as long as procedures are followed properly, it works. Still, while you can do things like that with amd(8), it's a fragile construction, and an accidental eject(1) can break things until the next reboot.
Apart from amd's weakness with removable storage devices - are you sure the freezes you see are not actually USB problems?
HAL is supposed to provide a connection between the kernel's knowledge of plug-{in,out} events and interested parties in userland, like a desktop manager. Apparently, NetBSD is finally catching up there.
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