[gobolinux-users] Mount options with HAL

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:06:07 +0100, Vojta Grec <gobo at morha.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> long time no hear:-). I just installed on my notebook (If you remember, I
> wrote to the list last about a year and something ago. I was willing to make
> Gobo i586 port but finally I rather got a new notebook:-). Shiny old P3
> 850MHz + 256M RAM. I use *buntu on my other machines. I had a custom
> lightweight setup of *buntu (Openbox etc.) on that notebook, but Gobo+KDE is
> maybe even faster (I didn't think this is possible).). Sorry for the
> bullshitting, now for the matter:
>
> I'm from the Czech rep., so I chose the cs_CZ locale (iso8859-2), installed
> KDE-I18N-cs etc. but can't get a correct display of diacritics for a mounted
> flashdisk (both in Konqueror and console, so it's a low-level problem. I
> have a default Gobo install (HAL, DBus), no Pmount or Ivman. When I mount
> the flashdisk by hand with "-t vfat -o codepage=852,iocharset=iso8859-2" it
> works, but when the flash is automounted in KDE it does not. I guessed that
> it is caused by HAL and tried to force HAL to use the options but had no
> success. Somebody please help if you can (maybe it's not caused by HAL?).
>
> Further description:
> I Googled a lot and tried setting volume.policy.mount_option.codepage (and
> many similar combinations) mainly in /S/S/hal/fdi/policy/10-
> storage-policy.fdi but it didn't work in KDE and it didn't even show up in
> lshal. If it showed in lshal it could be something similar to that ArchLinux
> bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8342> but as it does not, I really don't
> know what to do.
>
I think I found the bug and it's in KDE:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133456
There is a patch in that bug report. Could you try and Compile KDE-Base with
that patch included and see if that helps? If it does help I'd recommend that
we include it in our recipe.

-- 
/Jonas

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