hi Jan, sorry to say that, but your patches seem not to work pretty good.
you cannot open media:/devices it just shows blank things,although the device gets mounted.
really crazy
please fix this immediatly, else kdebase and hal doesn't make much sense.
you can also try with a simple usbstick and the storage applet or konqui media:/
greetings
tpowa

Hmm, this seems to have been an issue with -2 also. The ubuntu guys are having exactly the same problem. I hope I can find out what the problem is with this thingy.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10788

hi Jan
still not perfect, usb stuff works but my floppy drive stays blank, and my root (/) does not show mounted and show also blank.
greetings
tpowa

Actually, this is not a bug in KDE, but in HAL.
Floppy shows up after I applied power to it (forgot to connect it in my system), but shows up empty too.

The rootfs does not show up as mounted, this is a bug in hal, since it also gets a mounted = no flag from the device manager.

The actual problem on this one is simple:

rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / xfs rw,noatime 0 0

I will try to hack the floppy code together and then start working on hal somehow, but it could be we need to change something in our base system to get it working correctly.

Edit:
hi Jan next problem, it seems not alway to get the unmount command in gui, although it's unmounted, and it does show mounting device, although it's already mounted. stange heh.

I hacked together a new patch, which uses halbackend for removable devices which are not floppies and uses a stripped down version of fstabbackend to handle floppies andt he root filesystem.
I don't know how hal handles ZIP drives, so I need a testperson with a ZIP drive for that.

Hal also doesn't support linux software raid, on my system with pure hal the software RAID partitions don't show up in the mediamanager. With the patch, my root filesystem shows up fine now, thanks to fstabbackend.

I'm currently building kdebase with the updated patch, hope to have a working kdebase later today.

Jan guess what, i have a zip drive at home i can test this on weekend.
greetings
tpowa

Patch is in CVS now. Hope to build the final -4 very soon.

Tobias: if it doesn't work out for zip drives, please provide me with a screenshot output of hal-device-manager with the zipdrive selected and the advanced tab of t hat.

hi
usb hd is not recognized anymore, that's really bad :(

OK, if we can't workaround hal correctly, then hal needs to workaround linux.

At this moment hal uses /proc/mounts to gather information about mounts. /proc/mounts doesn't know about which partition hosts the mounted thing called "rootfs".
I will wreck the harddisk support out of the haladdition backend tomorrow and put it back into the halbackend. I will move the zip support (maybe also jazz support?) to the haladdition backend and disable it in the halbackend.

Next problem we will have then is that media:/ doesn't make the rootfs accessible, because it doesn't know which partition is the rootfs. I will patch hal to drop /proc/mounts and use /etc/mtab, which lists the rootfs correctly.

Thing that remains then is that my rootfs is on softRAID, which is not supported by hal (heh). I could add some checks to halbackend to leave out the rootfs and leave that part into haladdition. I think this is probably the best way to go.

ok i'm off to munich again, but i have taken my zip drive with me,
and i also have hal source code downloaded, so i can patch it on the fly, if you have something new.