[Techtalk] help meee epson scanner Dapper die hotplug die

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 6:46 am, Wim De Smet wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> > Carla Schroder writes:
> > > since it is a source of continual vexation. And I want to know why TF 
aren't
> > > basic functions like scanning and printing on supported effing devices
> > > working right yet on effing Linux, and where is the effing sekkrit
> > > documentation for usb hotplug. <growl>
> >
> > Wouldn't it be nice if they actually wrote documentation for this
> > stuff when they yanked old working systems out and replaced them
> > with brand new systems? But in any case, don't waste your time
> > looking for the nonexistent sekkrit hotplug documentation, when
> > what you need is the nonexistent sekkrit udev documentation.
> 
> (sry for not putting this one in with the other mail)
> I just checked and under debian there's /usr/share/doc/udev which
> seems to hold all the information you really need. (including how to
> disable udev, but probably not advisable on ubuntu who knows what
> it'll break) Ubuntu mainly relies on its wiki of course, I had a look
> around there but didn't see any user docs for udev. I did find this
> thread[1] on the forums but they don't offer up a solution. Seems
> ubuntu kind of messed up in the udev department. :-(
> 

Wim, thanks, but either you're smarter than me or you have a more complete set 
of docs. I have:

changelog.Debian.gz
changelog.gz
copyright
examples
FAQ.gz
README.gz
RELEASE-NOTES.gz

There isn't much in there for end users. Anyway, I have a better idea what to 
research now, which is something!

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