Listing other devices(TV card, capture card, etc), displaying device status(OK or ERROR_CODE) and the ability to Enabled/Disable, might be useful for troubleshooting.
AI: Why it helps • Isolates the device — Removing the device from the kernel’s view (or unbinding its driver) lets you confirm whether a problem (kernel oops, high interrupt load, memory leaks, resource conflicts, driver hangs, etc.) is caused by that specific card. If the issue disappears after removal and reappears after rescan/rebind, the device or its driver is implicated. • Tests driver state — Some drivers leave hardware in a bad state. A remove + rescan (or unbind + bind) forces a clean re-probe and re-initialization, which can clear sticky errors without a full reboot. • Checks resource conflicts — PCIe devices share BARs, IRQs/MSI-X vectors, and IOMMU mappings. Temporarily removing one device frees those resources so you can see whether another device starts working correctly. • Verifies hot-plug / power behavior — On systems that support it, toggling the device helps confirm whether the slot, link, or power management is stable. • Narrows down hardware vs. software — If the device works after a clean re-enable but fails after a normal boot sequence, the problem is often in module load order, firmware loading, or udev/systemd interactions rather than the hardware itself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2168650 Title: Feature Request: Add a Device Manager equivalent To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2168650/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
