I completely agree.... you can hardly call this hotplugging anyway as I had to configure my touchpad in the obscure hal fdi file :( Hotplugging is there to make life easier, not harder I thought... Greetings, Erwin On Monday 01 December 2008 18:08:23 Aaron Griffin wrote: > Hah, thanks Thomas, I didn't want to be the one to say it. My system > has worked fine with "hotplugging" for the past 5 years or so. I > always wondered what sort of crazy esoteric systems needed this stuff > such that editing some confusing XML files was a good tradeoff