> > 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