Hotplug didnt pickup anything on my system...possibly bc none of it is pnp. everything is mainly legacy non-pnp stuff except the lan and video cards which slackware found with no problem at all. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > The idea of a utility confuses me. How does it deal with floppies? It's > possible that what is actually happening is that it is using automount > which is an optional feature of the kernel and was originally designed for > NFS. It apparently has been used with CD ROMs as well, but I've never > played with it. > > That's funny that you say that the Slackware kernel doesn't have enough. > I find it too bloated still. It has support for RAID, PCMCIA, and other > things I don't use. The first thing I do when I get a fresh copy of > Slackware installed is to build a custom kernel. I like how Slackware > encourages you to do it, where Redhat has a hands-off approach of > automatically loading modules and assuming that you are leaving the kernel > alone and will never compile one yourself. If you compile the drivers for > your network card straight into the kernel in Redhat, it will get upset. > Even in Slackware, it is possible to load modules for all sorts of > drivers, and I can get a Slackware system working fine without a kernel > build. However, I noticed that after building a custom kernel, I was able > to shave several seconds off the boot time mainly by eliminating modules > for stuff I don't use. My approach is to build almost everything into the > kernel, but make modules out of things I will seldom use. For example, > since I have Roadrunner, I build my network card's drivers in, and I keep > PPP as a module in case I have to revert to dial-up. I also keep support > for the Minix filesystem and loopfs as modules since I occasionally need > loopfs and run into a Minix disk image here and there. About the only > other modules are Alsa. The result is that my kernel is under 1MB and my > system comes up pretty fast even on this ancient computer. To me, being > able to tweak things to perfection is part of the beauty of Linux. You > can't simply remove support for hardware you don't have in windows like > that. BTW, the new hotplug support didn't detect anything on my computer, > but I suspect it may do more on modern computers. It's probably a good > compromise between the sluggish Kudzu of Redhat and no attempt at all to > find hardware. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
