Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 07:05, Tom Horsley wrote: > > And snipped my original post about 1394 stuffs in general, please don't do > that as it destroys the context of the thread. > >> Look at the boot messages as they go past - I'm pretty sure >> I remember noticing yesterday a message during boot that >> hotplug failed to start on my machine. Maybe it is just >> broken (this was FC6 i686 system). > > The only mention of hotplug is this: > Nov 12 05:59:04 coyote pcscd: > hotplug_libusb.c:361:HPEstablishUSBNotifications() Hotplug stopped > and > Nov 12 06:03:04 coyote kernel: pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: > 0.5 > at the last reboot. > > And there doesn't seem to be a hotplug entry in /etc/init.d, so I'm a bit > fruzzled. > > 1. hotplug wasn't something I used in FC2 so I'm not fam with its > foibles. > > 2. /etc/hotplug only has a usb subdir in it, and is otherwise empty except > for what appears to be a couple of kino related files in the usb subdir. > And my camera uses firewire, not usb. > > 3. I was able to get all that to work early this morning by repeatedly > modprobing those 3 modules until the errors went away (I expect I had > them listed in the wrong order on the command line), and then used htop > to send the udevd a SIGHUP. Then kino could find the camera and run it. > but not before. > > If anyone has any suggestions please speak up.. > > Thanks. > In FC5, and most likely in FC6, hotplug is not being used. The functions of hotplug have been taken over by udev and HAL. I believe that the reason that /etc/hotplug is still there is that udev does some checking for old hotplug scripts and uses them. Before it died, I was doing some work to convert the hotplug code for my REB110 ebook reader to set the proper permissions so I could run rebcomm as a normal user. I have a hotplug script that set the owner of the USB device to the owner of the console. Because it does not get an entry in /dev, you can not use the normal permission setting of udev. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
