Bug 38305 (suse23305) - sax2: Allow other locations than floppy/CD for monitor .inf file
Summary: sax2: Allow other locations than floppy/CD for monitor .inf file
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: suse23305
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: SaX2 (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Stefan Dirsch
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Reported: 2003-02-04 22:46 UTC by Tobias Burnus
Modified: 2008-07-16 19:50 UTC (History)
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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.