Bug 58901
Summary: | kudzu permanently asks for hardware change | ||||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <jeandom> | ||||||
Component: | kudzu | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | mhw, rvokal | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||||
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Last Closed: | 2005-02-04 22:44:17 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-01-27 09:35:28 UTC
I find the same problem with external mice attached to laptops. Once I've got the system configured as I want it I'd like kudzu to stop pestering me every time it notices that the external mouse has been reconnected. As well as being irritating there's the danger that a user who isn't in on the secret will chose the wrong option and cause kudzu to rewrite (and break) the X configuration. I'd find this change useful too, both for my laptop and my desktop machine. For my laptop I have a USB mouse, USB floppy and PCMCIA CD-ROM and PCMCIA network/modem card. Some of these might not be connected when I turn the laptop on, hence I get the warning from kudzu that a device has disappeared. Things have improved over time as handling of hot-swap devices has improved, but the USB mouse still causes the problem from what I remember. My desktop machine has the same problem - the modem is used infrequently so I often don't switch it on when the machine is booting, leading to kudzu prompting again on the first boot with the modem switched off, then the first boot with it switched on, etc. It would be useful to have a 'This device is intermittently connected. Never ask me about it at boot time' check box to overcome this. Created attachment 90764 [details]
Add support for intermittently connected devices to kudzu
I've implemented support for intermittently connected devices in kudzu. The
new kudzu has been minimally tested on my laptop and it successfully handles my
USB mouse: whether or not it's connected at boot time the configuration stays
put.
Hm, I think what needs to be done here is to just *fix* the 'detached' flag so that it works, not to implement new variations on it. Created attachment 90789 [details]
Improved patch for intermittently connected devices
Bill is right, my previous patch was much too complicated. Here's a simpler
one. I don't have the USB mouse to hand so this has been tested with a serial
mouse. All the combinations I can think of seem to work as I'd like.
Closing out bugs on older, no longer supported releases. Apologies for any lack of response. Please attempt to confirm with more recent releases. |