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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | kmilo shouldn't probe hardware unless necessary | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 | Reporter: | Ioana Josephine Ciuca <Josephine_k> |
| Component: | KDE | Assignee: | E-mail List <kde-maintainers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Minor | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | f-perret |
| Version: | Beta 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | SUSE Other | ||
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| Found By: | Beta-Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Attachments: | lshal from Sony Vaio VGN-FS115B | ||
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Description
Ioana Josephine Ciuca
2005-08-11 20:52:20 UTC
the problem is most probably the sony vaio kmilo module (KDE control center=>System=>Sony Vaio Notebook) which tried to access /dev/sonypi which in turn loads the module. This should be fixed in kmilo with a configurable "do not load this module" checkbox (also for the other, sometimes annoying features like Volume display overlay). As a workaround you can put the following into /etc/modprobe.conf.local: # sonypi install char-major-10-250 /bin/true well, actually the default should be the other way around (not loading it unless necessary) but I'm not aware of a method of detecting the hardware without root privileges. e.g. detecting if its a sony vaio works by doing a dmi scan, which requires root privileges. Is there some capability which we can use to detect if its a mobile computer at all? hmm, the other solution would be to remove kmilo from kdeutils3 and put it in a subpackage, which is only installed on laptop selection. I would actually prefer that. you don't need a device scan for that. check system.product on HAL's /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer should have something like Vaio in it (can someone please provide a lshal output?) - all you need for that is libhal linkage Created attachment 45876 [details]
lshal from Sony Vaio VGN-FS115B
This is actually a system not supported by sonypi, but this can probably only
be decided by the module itself.
and couldn't we provide a checkbox to disable every kmilo module separately? I find e.g. the volume display most annoying and can only turn it off by disabling service kmilo. *** Bug 104392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** kmilo also loads thinkpad module, which is apparently loadable on all hardware. *** Bug 114960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** we've split kmilo into kdeutils3-laptop, which solves this issue mostly. for fixing, uninstall kdeutils3-laptop from your desktop. real fix requires not installing kdeutils3-laptop on non-laptop machines, this is a bit more difficult. this depends on patterns being implemented. as I heard, this doesn't happen before 10.2. Gary, please add this pattern to the SLED laptop pattern. Then reassign back for 10.2 tracking. Thanks. will do, we haven't done anything on the patterns yet. I expect it should be soon. This has been added to the laptop pattern for BETA9. I think this is good enough and we should rather concentrate on more important issues |