On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:34, Élie Charest wrote: > Le 30 Octobre 2003 00:05, Con Kolivas a écrit : > > > By the way, adding in the supermount patch for test8 to test9 seems to > > > work fine - in fact, I haven't had any troubles except for my usb > > > scanner not being detected at all. > > > > Chances are you're not loading the usb module correctly (some have > > changed names) or you're not mounting the new usbfs. Put this into your > > /etc/fstab > > > > > > none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 > > I tried and still my scanner wouldn't work. The weird thing is that it > would appear in the /proc/bus/usb/devices and in usbview. > > On a wild guess (while checking commands that started with "usb" - thank > god for autocomplete!) I tried usbmodules --device /proc/bus/usb/003/004 > (the adress given in /proc/bus/usb/devices) and I got "scanner" as the > output. Checking "man usbmodules" helped me understand what the command did > (yeah, I know I'm not supposed to type in random commands as root). In a > flash of insight I tried "modprobe scanner" and it worked.
yay > > I am now happily testing out my homemade test9 kernel and so far, so good! > The only thing not working seems to be the framebuffer console (I'm in > 25x80 text mode now). In fact, I finally put "vga=ask" in the 2.6.0-test9 > entry in lilo.conf, and it didn't even ask me anything - it went straight > to 25x80 text mode. the vga=ask only works at the lilo prompt, not as an append. you need to specify the exact vga mode in the lilo.conf that you want. > > Oh well, that's a minor annoyance. I'll continue testing test9 for a > while... Cheers, Con
