Not that anyone asked ... But I though I'd throw in my 2 cents regarding kudzu. I have turned it off on my portable system. I find it's just a nuisance when I need to boot because it comes up too often asking me to remove something that it will then ask me to add next time I have the system docked. I find it easier to simply run kudzu from the command line when I truly have new hardware that requires configuration. It's not hard to remember this. Frankly, I don't do this on my office systems, because it's not a problem there. I rarely boot them, and when I do, it's usually a matter of new hardware, so I appreciate kudzu at those times. But the other question in the current circumstance with John seems to be that the braille display should be registered somehow with linux as a recognized and supported device, so that it will not be probed and reset by kudzu. Am I wrong about this?