Gnome 2.8 supports automounting/playing of DVD/CD's, memory sticks, even cameras, however since my upgrade from Gnome 2.6 to Gnome 2.8 I was never able to get this to work properly.
In Gnome 2.6 there was a package called magicdev that did the work, in Gnome 2.8 this is replaced by gnome-volume-manager, hal, amongst others.
But yesterday I finally got it working, thanks to a hint on the debian-gtk-gnome list. Turns out your user account needs to be in the plugdev group for this magic to work.
$> sudo adduser crafterm plugdev
and viola it all started working. :)
Posted by crafterm at December 16, 2004 12:51 PM | TrackBack