On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:20:22PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 13:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett 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. > > 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 Or just add floppy-support and analog-joystick-support packages that include appropriate modprobe.conf fragments, and have documentation that instructs the user to install them. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
