[NTLUG:Discuss] Where do USB devices appear these days?

[Terry]

On 2/2/06, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Apparently, Suse [and Novell] has gotten a handle on this situation
> > and will be a lot better situation with the next release, which
> > appears to be only a couple months away.
> > --------------
> > From:
> > http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124571,00.asp
> >
> > "Getting the Picture"
> >
> > "Novell has also included software that recognizes when a digital
> > camera is connected to the PC, and offers to transfer images from the
> > camera's memory to an application called F-Spot, where they can be
> > cataloged, edited, or posted to a Web site. "
> > --------------
>
>
> Novell  Linux  10  commercial desktop , hope it is included in  SuSE's next
> OSS release  10.1.
>

Oh, there's a difference?

    I didn't know that!



> On 1/31/06, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> > > I just recently upgraded to SuSE 9.3 from 9.1 and I find that my
> > > USB devices don't work like they used to.
> > >
> > > I'm a pretty dedicated command-line person - so I dislike pointy-clicky
> > > things.
> > >
> > > In the past, it was all very logical - I plugged in my camera or my
> > > USB thumb drive or hard drive - and a few seconds later, the device
> > > would be automounted in /media - easy.
> > >
> > > Now, one of about four things happens:
> > >
> > > 1) Nothing.
> > >
> > > 2) The device DOESN'T appear in /media - and the KDE file manager
> > > thingy pops up (totally un-asked-for) and tells me that my camera
> > > is in:
> > >
> > >      camera://Olympus_whatever/
> > >
> > > 3) It appears in /media but the popup thingy doesn't appear.
> > >
> > > 4) It appears in /media AND the popup thingy appears.
> > >
> > > It's weird.
> > >
> > > But what is this URL-like "camera://" thing?  Whatever happened
> > > to filenames and paths and such?   I presume this is just a
> > > thin veneer of cuteness over the underlying file system - so
> > > where *is* 'camera://'.
> > >
> > > I *hate* this ongoing cute-ification!
> > >
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