ACPI and USB question

I bought a sorta old machine over the weekend having a Gigabyte
GA-7ZX motherboard. Installed Linux (FC5) on it. At first when
I would plug anything into the onboard USB connector the machine
would freeze up solid. Then I heeded a line near the beginning
of the kernel bootup messages where it says the BIOS is too old
and to run with acpi=force. So I added that to the kernel line
in grub.conf and now I can plug into the USB connector without
upsetting the machine.

However, unlike some other machines I have, when I plug something
into the USB connector, like a USB disc, it doesn't get mounted
automatically. I have to make a mountpoint in /media and manually
mount the device by being root and saying something like
mount /dev/sda1 /media/foo. After which an icon shows up on the
desktop just like happens on my other machines when the disc is
automatically mounted.

What is it about this machine/motherboard that keeps automounting
from happening?
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jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

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