From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; DVD Owner) Description of problem: I have an external Scanner, which is sometimes powered On or Off. When the system is booted many times, with the scanner alternatively powered on or off, kudzu asks if the description should be kept/removed even if we previously have answered it should be kept. In other words, when kudzu recognizes the scanner (after a power on and a reboot), it forget we have requested to keep the description and, when powered off, we are again asked if the description should be kept or removed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect an external deviceto the system (for instance a scanner). 2. Switch on the device and boot the system -> Kudzu recognizes the device. 3. Switch off the device and reboot -> Kudzu asks if the device description must be kept or removed ; ANSWER IT SHOULD BE KEPT. 4. Switch on the device and reboot -> Kudzu recognizes the device and uses the old description. 5. Switch off the device and reboot -> BUG ! Actual Results: Kudzu asks again if the description must be kept or removed. This is really more than boring for such a peripheral, that is on one day, and off the day after (to avoid mechanical problems due to multiple reset). Expected Results: Kudzu should remember that we have previously requested the description to be kept. Like fsck, we should have a counter for how many system boots the software should wait before asking again if the description must be removed (otherwise, we won't be able to ever removed the description). Additional info:
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.