On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:41:57 +0100,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
ACPI turned out to be full of lies. The real problem is that machines
will report a floppy controller even if they have no floppy drives
attached, and the ACPI function that's supposed to return a list of
drives usually returns a mixture of falsehoods and untruths. Merely
havig a floppy controller is enough to get the floppy driver loaded,
which then hangs for ages looking for a drive.
Thanks for the explanation.
There's no way to get any feedback from the gameport driver as to
(a)
whether there's anything plugged in, or (b) what is plugged in. We could
have the gameport driver automatically pull in analog but that'd
probably break people doing midi or using some more specialised input
device. It's a hard problem that only impacts a pretty tiny set of
people, so it's prioritised somewhere below the hard problems that
impact a pretty large set of people.
Again thanks for the explanation. I had figured gameports might be hard
to detect so I wasn't too worried about this. I did want to mention
what you needed to include on the modprobe command to get the the driver
loaded in case someone wandered accross the thread later.