Tim: >> I'd like to hear if anybody else suggests to do the same thing, as well, >> before I install something from development. But I wonder if just >> identifying the part is going to be enough to make use of it. David Timms: > Basically, what is in development on Tuesday, will be F8, so I don't > think it's that scary. And the hwinfo, may only give names to those > PCI-ids. It would be easy to revert to the original CD or repo's hwdata rpm. I suppose it sounds easy enough to undo, but I was also thinking that it'd only give a name to the polled results, rather than help make use of the device. > The contents of hwdata: rpm -q --fileprovide hwdata > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > /usr/share/doc/hwdata-0.200 > /usr/share/doc/hwdata-0.200/COPYING > /usr/share/doc/hwdata-0.200/LICENSE > /usr/share/hwdata > /usr/share/hwdata/MonitorsDB > /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids > /usr/share/hwdata/upgradelist > /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids > /usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases > /usr/share/hwdata/videodrivers > > udev can also be updated independently. > Trying to update hal brings in about 80 f8 packages. > You could also install the devel kernel to check if that has additional > capabilities - it's easy enough to select the f7 kernel if it is no go. I was hoping to avoid doing anything major. It's not too much of an issue to re-install if I have to. It's a laptop with only a few local files on it. If anybody already using devel, or the test for the next release, and has one of these Ricoh readers, it'd be good to hear about. > By the way, what ubuntu kernel version was running when it was detected OK ? I'm really in unfamiliar territory, but uname ought to do the trick: tim@suspishus:~$ uname --all Linux suspishus 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux -- Using FC 4 - 7, CentOS 5, plus Ubuntu. Now, it's Ubuntu. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
