Problem:

openSUSE 11.2 uses HAL, whereas KDE 4.6.x uses udisks and upower to address hardware.

Symptoms:

K3b does not detect your CD drive, USB sticks don't get detected. On a laptop, the battery indicator says, there was no battery.

Solution:

Tell KDE 4.6.x to use HAL.

Put a little bash script into /usr/share/kde4/env and name it, say, KDE-HAL.sh with the following content:

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#!/bin/bash
# To force KDE on openSUSE 11.2 to use HAL

export SOLID_HAL_LEGACY=1



Now, log off your KDE session and log in again. USB sticks and stuff should be recognized now!

Fo me K3b detects my cd drive and my usb sticks and I don't have hal installed. The script is really important to have available if udev isn't fully functioning. Not sure all related functionality works correctly but for me things seem to be be ok on the udev front but I do not have openSuse running on a laptop so can't talk about battery indicator and power management.

k3b probably works because of a patch http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/ ... 00019.html, this patch may not be on the Packman version (don't know).