On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:41:57 +0100, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ACPI turned out to be full of lies. The real problem is that machines > will report a floppy controller even if they have no floppy drives > attached, and the ACPI function that's supposed to return a list of > drives usually returns a mixture of falsehoods and untruths. Merely > havig a floppy controller is enough to get the floppy driver loaded, > which then hangs for ages looking for a drive. Thanks for the explanation. > There's no way to get any feedback from the gameport driver as to (a) > whether there's anything plugged in, or (b) what is plugged in. We could > have the gameport driver automatically pull in analog but that'd > probably break people doing midi or using some more specialised input > device. It's a hard problem that only impacts a pretty tiny set of > people, so it's prioritised somewhere below the hard problems that > impact a pretty large set of people. Again thanks for the explanation. I had figured gameports might be hard to detect so I wasn't too worried about this. I did want to mention what you needed to include on the modprobe command to get the the driver loaded in case someone wandered accross the thread later. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
