> > Did the OpenSuse KDE3 people resolve this problem? > > No, they build HAL just as I do for Ubuntu. Looks like they have udisks2 support: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/06/02/kde3-gets-udisks2-backend/ > I think I was not clear enough. ;-) What I mean is if > you double-click on the device icon, does TDE mount the device? If not, is > an error generated? I'll have to test more methodically to record exact sequences of events and messages. > Remember that in order to use pmount on certain > distributions your user needs to be part of a certain group on the system. > See http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/pmount.1.html. Users are members of the plugdev group. I also tested as root with the same results. Darrell