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Chapter 11, Hardware
#93 Perfect USB Devices with Project Utopia
HACK
Install the Packages
You need to install the packages in the right order. If you are using a system
that figures out the dependencies and installs them in the correct order
(such as APT or
portage), this should be easy for you. If you are installing the
packages individually, here is the required order:
• Kernel 2.6
• linux-hotplug
• udev
• dbus
• HAL
In addition, if you are using the GNOME desktop, you should install the
GNOME Volume Manager. This package (often named
gnome-volume-
manager
) requires the following packages to be installed:
• python-gnome2
• libgnomeui
• gnome-common
• libglade2
You probably have some of these packages available already.
Configure the Automounter
When you plug a device into the system, you want to be able to automati-
cally access the device. For units such as digital cameras and other USB mass
storage devices, you ideally want to plug in the device and be able to use it
right away—no more manual mounting of disks. On a Linux system,
mounted disks are typically managed by /etc/fstab. One option for automati-
cally mounting inserted media uses this file. This program, called
fstab-sync,
is part of the HAL package and it modifies /etc/fstab each time a device is
plugged in and used. When you install the HAL package,
fstab-sync is
installed automatically for you.
Another option is to use
pmount, written by Martin ...