Hello together,

I've installed Slackware-13.37 on the old Laptop of my friend. It is has a Celeron-processor and only 256MB of RAM.

It is planed that my friend's children use the laptop for Internet-surfing and homework as well as playing games.

Since they are (not yet) Linux users I try to configure the machine as "easy to use". Unfortunately I cannot install KDE (or Gnome respectively) because the machine is too old. So I decided to install XFCE, but automount doesn't work. On my own laptop (I've KDE installed, but use FVWM) removeable devices are mounted automatically when I open a Filemanager (dolphin or thunar) independently of the windowmanager. I'd like to have this (or a similar behaviour) on the old laptop as well. I've added the users to the plugdev-group, but automounting does not work.

Could please anyone give me a hint how to configure automount? can there be a kernel-module missing? I've never configured automount on Slackware before because KDE has it natively and when not using KDE I mount by hand, but this is too difficult for the children.

I've searched the forums here at LQ, I found much about HAL, but I don't want to use HAL. So I think about udev-rules or autofs.

Thanks in advance

Markus

If you launch the session from a display manager such as gdm or kdm (I use the latter), rather than doing startx it should just work.

//edit:

I've also used this approach in the past (though in debian).

Create ~/.xinitrc

And startx

See if it works, if it doesn't help just remove it.

mh, thanks for the answer, now you've answered to my question of the other thread

ok sorry, it was related to this one

I'll try that out, it looks promising.

Markus

Well, I have a virtual machine with the same setup on virtualbox. On the virtual machine automount works as expected. But on the old laptop It's not yet working even with the above settings in .xinitrc.

Markus