Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Well that capability is one of the beautis of D-Bus, check the Red Hat > article on that: http://info.redhat.com/a/hBB8DIYAJPSNNAVC3Z0AK4HN1LI/rhm324 > > I actually think this is a good idea, it only needs to be more > consistent regarding its behaviour... And if this requires kernel-side > support, it'd be swell if they stated so, since with custom kernels, it > is quite common that USB devices like printers simply disappear when you > boot and kudzu complains about that... on occations this is so bad, that > you (at least me a couple of times) lose printing capability until you > reboot (WTH?!?!) even if you have all the appropriate USB modules loaded > and even when /sbin/lsusb lists your device. CUPS will simply not see > port /dev/usb/lp0, what is worse, indeed this is not cretaed, even when > you have usbfs loaded fine and all looks peachy in /proc and mount... Yes, but what about in /sys ? OK, it's not *that* easy to find out, but HAL relies on /sys being there and mounted in order to find out what hardware is there. James. -- James Wilkinson | The sendmail configuration file is one of those Exeter Devon UK | files that looks like someone beat their head on E-mail address: james | the keyboard. After working with it... I can see @westexe.demon.co.uk | why!
