Bug 38305 (suse23305)

Summary:	sax2: Allow other locations than floppy/CD for monitor .inf file
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Tobias Burnus <burnus>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <sax2-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ms, sndirsch, suse-beta
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Tobias Burnus 2003-02-04 22:46:20 UTC

In Sax2 you can choose "Diskette..." in various places (e.g. Insert vendor
monitor driver floppy"). Which then tries to access the floppy.

I would expect that I can also specify another location that is a directory,
where I downloaded the driver or where I mounted the CompactDisc.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2003-02-20 23:52:21 UTC

- There is only one place where the user can choose "Diskette..."
  This is the place where the monitor disk can be inserted.

- At the time I don't know a monitor vendor which provides
  a CD or another medium to hold the .inf file

If you can ensure there is a monitor manufacturer which provides
a different medium than a disk for the monitor then I will include
the possibility to read from this medium, otherwise I see no need why
this should be implemented

Comment 2 Tobias Burnus 2003-02-21 00:01:02 UTC

> If you can ensure there is a monitor manufacturer which provides
> a different medium than a disk for the monitor then I will include
> the possibility to read from this medium, otherwise I see no need why
> this should be implemented.
Well, given that floppies frequently get broken, we have those files on a
central directory where we can access them from all computers using NFS. This is
not exactly a vendor CD though...

Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2006-08-06 12:25:18 UTC

ping ;-)

What's the status of this ancient feature request?

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2008-07-16 19:50:09 UTC

There are no plans to implement this feature - unless someone attaches a patch
for SaX2.