[SOLVED] KDE 4.5: Device Notifier does not show CDs anymore

During one of the last updates KDE's Device Notifier lost the ability to display CDs I put into my CD drives. USB sticks  do show up correctly. DBUS and HAL are running, the device Manager is configured to show up all removable medias. I can manually mount the CDs by using the mount command. Also if I connect the drive to my virtualbox XP installation they autoplay correctly. So this is no hardware failure.
I just want to put a CD in and the device manager should pop up and inform me of the actions that are possible. KDE 4.4 did this, KDE 4.5 does not. I am using the testing repo and my system is up-to-date.
Any advice?
Harvey
Last edited by Harey (2010-10-22 07:41:47)

xvello,
The issue might be in hal
I could hug you
You're absolutely right. Hal was the culprit. Under /etc/hal/fdi/information/ there were two files "media-check-disable-storage_model_<my CDs model name>" and both of them had a line:
<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
Setting them to
<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">true</merge>
reenabled the notification of KDE's device Notifier.
As users always say: I never changed this
Marking this as solved.
Thanks a lot
Harvey

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