I definitely like the notion of disabling kudzu probes on particular ports. This is a superior fix indeed. The HOWTO currently recommends doing: chkconfig --level 0123456 [service] off from the second console before rebooting the fresh install. Of course, this is particularly important for newbies and with respect to the firstboot [service]. For folks who miss this on the install round, the HOWTO recommends going into single user mode to fix this. I suppose the Caddilac solution would be an additional screen via the Anaconda installer to deal with these things--and create the appropriate initrd. Something else for the 2do list. Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Cheryl Homiak on 2004/05/23 at 15:00 -0500] > > >Is it necessary with the braillified Fedora core disk, if one then > >installs by cdrom, to go through the steps of turning off firstboot and > >kudzu before rebooting as is true with speakup? > > Yes, those things would need to be done. Note, however, that it's not necessary > to turn kudzu off altogether. It's merely necessary, if your braille display > uses a serial port, to tell kudzu not to rpobe serial ports. This is done by > setting "SAFE" to "yes" in "/etc/sysconfig/kudzu". > > >Is there documentation I > >should be reading re: this question? > > No, but I'll be glad to add some. Please let me know which steps you use to > disable kudzu and firstboot so that I can consider them for inclusion. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me > EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. > http://familyradio.com/ | http://mielke.cc/bible/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) Email: janina@xxxxxxx Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list