hwdetect spreading to other distros?!

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-04 21:10:02

...Hwdetect has been reworked and provides many new routines for hardware detection...

Would this be the same hwdetect as we use, or something totally different? :shock:

phrakture · 2005-12-04 21:12:56

ummm it sounds like a very very common name, so who knows.

nightfrost · 2005-12-04 23:19:46

I would be surprised if it wouldn't spread. I really can't understand how hwdetect loads my modules faster than they are loaded when I add them explicitly to the modules array...

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-04 23:37:53

It shouldn't. It doesn't load them in parallel... Ought to take the same amount of time.

At any rate... Thanks, tpowa, for this awesome script. Hwdetect, or variants thereof, ought to be used on all distros. Hwdetect + udev would probably make Windows hotplugging look like crap.

nightfrost · 2005-12-04 23:44:55

Gullible Jones wrote:

It shouldn't. It doesn't load them in parallel... Ought to take the same amount of time.

I know! That's why I've secretely been thinking that tpowa was into dark magic of some sort :twisted:

MartinZ · 2005-12-05 04:22:14

True!!!

What i just don't like from hwdetect is that it loads lots of modules that i don't need, so i keep using modules array...

But i shall say that i really like hwdetect, it's a powerfull, simple, lightweight and very fast app. I guess next version of Archie would be even better with this tool.

tpowa · 2005-12-05 06:42:09

if it loads stuff you don't like just use the MOD_BLACKLIST= array in rc.conf

dtw · 2005-12-05 11:24:41

OR, just load the ones you do want statically. If number of modules in blacklist is greater than number of modules in MODULES... goodbye efficiency...

phrakture · 2005-12-05 16:01:27

dibblethewrecker wrote:

OR, just load the ones you do want statically. If number of modules in blacklist is greater than number of modules in MODULES... goodbye efficiency...

Which is usually the case with the hwdetect stuff... my MODULES array used to be about 7 items long, and now the blacklist has about 15-20 in it (lp, pcspkr, yenta_socket, etc etc).

dtw · 2005-12-05 18:57:57

sooooooo...not so great that

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-05 20:34:14

So? Just turn off hwdetect and do it all manually.

I, for one, have had no problems with hwdetect... And if it's going to be a good replacement for the shite called hotplug, I'd be glad to see it stick around.

Lone_Wolf · 2005-12-06 22:58:42

With hwdetect it's a lot easier to figure out which modules are detected and if you need them.

example : before i switched to hwdetect my pcspeaker didn't give a peep, hwdetect sees it, loads it and i found out it's annoying, so it's now in the blacklist.

I think many people are using the blacklist as a tool to customize their system and that this explains why the blacklist gets so large.

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