> I cannot understate the amount of functionality that was > lost when HAL was abandoned. It will take a long time to rebuild > everything to the same level of functionality that once was available through HAL. Doesn't matter what was lost. :-) TDE is DEAD without automounting. I don't envision any user tolerating that loss of functionality. "Long time" won't cut the cheese with most users --- they'll move on. Did the OpenSuse KDE3 people resolve this problem? > I assume basic manual (non-automatic) mounting is working on > your test system? I did not try anything related to that. Why bother with convoluted circa 1999 mounting work-arounds? :-( Darrell