On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 13:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 06:50:11AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:33:04 +0200, > > Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > No, it means that (unless this was recently fixed) you have to modprobe it > > > manually (e.g. from rc.local) because nothing bothers trying to modprobe it > > > for you anymore. IMHO, this is really broken, but the bug reports about it > > > were ignored or declared NOTABUG. > > > > There was significant discussion about this issue on the mailing lists > > and Kyle thought he had a good solution to having the floppy drive > > recognized when it was there and not adding long delays to the boot up > > for people with incorrectly configured (your supposed to disable the floppy > > drive in the bios when you don't have one) or broken bios. I am not sure > > what happened with the implementation of the solution. > > 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. That seems like a clear opportunity to add a simple "configure legacy hardware" button to anaconda, that would do the modprobe floppy/gameport etc. stuff so it is loaded. Perhaps there could be switches: I have these legacy hardware: Floppy disk Analog joystick .... whatever -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
