More flexible??”If you don??™t like what happens automatically when a hardware item is
connected or disconnected, you can change it. For example, features built into GNOME
and KDE desktops let you choose what happens when a music CD or movie DVD is
inserted, or when a digital camera is connected. If you prefer a different program be
launched to handle it, you can easily make that change.
This section covers several issues relating to getting your hardware working properly in Linux.
First, it describes how to configure Linux to deal with removable media. Then it tells how to use
tools for manually loading and working with drivers for hardware that is not detected and loaded
properly.
Managing Removable Hardware
Linux systems such as SUSE, RHEL, Fedora, and others that support full KDE and GNOME desktop
environments include simple graphical tools for configuring what happens when you attach
popular removable devices to the computer. So, with a KDE or GNOME desktop running, you simply
plug in a USB device or insert a CD or DVD, and a window may pop up to deal with that device.
Although different desktop environments share many of the same underlying mechanisms (Udev
and Hotplug) to detect and name removable hardware, they offer different tools for configuring
how they are mounted or used.
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