4 problems - mount on boot - particion permitions - USB sound - Beryl

[kurotenshi]

Well i've only recently moved to linux, less than a month ago and i've been batalling with some minor problems and finding solutions on the internet but some major problems remain.

I have 2 hard drives and 4 particions, 20GB system (hda1), 2GB swap, 168GB for personal files (hda4) and 100Gb for personal files (hdb1) on the second drive.
Since i've recently moved from windows the second drive is still NTFS but the hda4 is fat32. I've looked all over for some way to auto mount it on start up but nothing worked. My current fstab file is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc          proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda2       /              ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none           swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0 auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda4       /home/carlos/arquivo auto default      0       1

Moving foward, after I mount the device hda4 i can do everything I want but only in command line as root but i wanted to be alowed to write on it outside the command line. I've tried

debian:/home/carlos# chmod -R 777 /home/carlos/arquivo
debian:/home/carlos# chmod -R 777 /dev/hda4

with both 777 and 775 being /home/carlos/arquivo the devie mounting point. Nothing changes in the permitions

On another field, I have a MoBo with on board sound and a Behringer UCA-202 USB card. The on board card is working well (some problems in regulating volume but it has sound) but the usb card is not. I'm using alsa and the card is known to work with it and it is detected by the system the problem (i think) is that the onboard is detected first and set as default. I've tried forcing the USB to be default in the alsa files but i't din't work.

Finaly, I've folowed the beryl's wiki page instructions to install beryl on Debian and installed it but when i clik on the beryl icon the xserver restarts (send me back to the log on and shuts down every program runing) and after loging in again beryl is off. Again tryed a lot of stuff nothing worked

Well that all, hope some one here can help me. by teh way i'm runing Debian Etch on a P4 3.2, 512Ram, AsRock P4S61 motherboard
excuse my english

[kurotenshi]

So? no one has anything to say that can help?

[rassah]

spare some time and install ntfs-3g. Force it mounted, and see the man pages for further details

[abhishek456]

regarding mounting vfat partion

if you want everybody to be able to read, write, and execute every file in your /mnt/c, you should specify the mask 0000:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/vfat vfat umask=0000 0 0

If you want only users from group 610 to be able to read, write, and execute:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/vfat vfat gid=610,umask=0707 0 0

If you want only users from group 610 to be able to read, and execute (not write):

/dev/hda1 /mnt/vfat vfat gid=610,umask=0727 0 0

[kurotenshi]

I've finally found a way to make the automount changing the fstab line to

/dev/hda4       /home/carlos/arquivo auto rw,user,auto,exec 0       0

now I'll try what u said

thanks