[arch-general] hwdetect with kernel upgrade?
Hello, A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs till I hit enter. I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now. AFAIK, the module-names and functionality is prone to changes from kernel to kernel. Should we automatically run hwdetect or advise users to check it in case of kernel upgrade? -- Shridhar
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
Hello,
A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs till I hit enter.
I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now.
AFAIK, the module-names and functionality is prone to changes from kernel to kernel. Should we automatically run hwdetect or advise users to check it in case of kernel upgrade?
I thought you can do this already by setting MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" in your rc.conf. DR
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
Hello,
A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs till I hit enter.
I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now.
AFAIK, the module-names and functionality is prone to changes from kernel to kernel. Should we automatically run hwdetect or advise users to check it in case of kernel upgrade?
I thought you can do this already by setting MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" in your rc.conf.
DR Hi hwdetect is a installation helper program of archboot isos, it's not used in any script on pacman -Syu. Names and functions of modules can change it's up to the user to adopt those changes as well, sure you can use hwdetect to get a new list of MODULES= for
Am Dienstag 03 Februar 2009 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: this, but it will be not involved in upgrade scripts. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
Shridhar Daithankar schrieb:
Hello,
A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs till I hit enter.
I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now.
We don't use hwdetect anymore and leave the user with an empty MODULES array on new installations. This works much better as soon as you work around the harddisk swapping issues with UUID based naming.
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David Rosenstrauch
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Shridhar Daithankar
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Thomas Bächler
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Tobias Powalowski