jr0dy
November 15th, 2008, 05:46 PM
I'm relatively new to the Linux platform. I've been using KDE for awhile on Hardy Heron and just performed a clean install of Intrepid Ibex and opted for GNOME this time based on many, many recommendations from friends. I'm starting to regret that decision.
Whereas KDE recognized and automounted my external NTFS USB hard drive, GNOME does not recognize its presence whatsoever. My FAT-formatted flash drives work fine. My other USB 1.1/2.0 devices work fine. The hard drive is detected and works flawlessly when I boot into my WinXP partition (which I was hoping not to have to boot into anymore :) ). I just recently installed 8.10 with GNOME on another computer and that computer does not recognize the drive, either, so based on that it appears this is GNOME-specific.
fdisk -l and lsusb turn up absolutely nothing in regards to the drive, so it's not just a problem in regards to the mounting but in recognizing it as being there.
I had some troubles after the initial install with some internal NTFS SATA drives where the system wouldn't boot to the GNOME login if anything other than just the system drive was plugged in at boot, but that seems to have been resolved, yet leads me to believe they may be conflicting somehow.
I really want to stay with GNOME, but this is driving me insane. I've been going through forums for probably a total of 5 hours on this and I am looking to either put it to rest or switch back to KDE. For all of you GNOMEiacs out there who would want to keep me from switching back, please help me.
Whereas KDE recognized and automounted my external NTFS USB hard drive, GNOME does not recognize its presence whatsoever. My FAT-formatted flash drives work fine. My other USB 1.1/2.0 devices work fine. The hard drive is detected and works flawlessly when I boot into my WinXP partition (which I was hoping not to have to boot into anymore :) ). I just recently installed 8.10 with GNOME on another computer and that computer does not recognize the drive, either, so based on that it appears this is GNOME-specific.
fdisk -l and lsusb turn up absolutely nothing in regards to the drive, so it's not just a problem in regards to the mounting but in recognizing it as being there.
I had some troubles after the initial install with some internal NTFS SATA drives where the system wouldn't boot to the GNOME login if anything other than just the system drive was plugged in at boot, but that seems to have been resolved, yet leads me to believe they may be conflicting somehow.
I really want to stay with GNOME, but this is driving me insane. I've been going through forums for probably a total of 5 hours on this and I am looking to either put it to rest or switch back to KDE. For all of you GNOMEiacs out there who would want to keep me from switching back, please help me.