Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:00:13AM +0800, John wrote:
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>>Hotplug I like, but I do worry over messages like these:
>>Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
>>Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
>>Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
>>Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
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>>Aren't those seriously _old_? They predate my use of CDs on OS/2!!
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>>There's not even a slot in that box to plug in an ISA card.
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>Interesting; I've never seen that.  Which device on your system is causing
>that module to be loaded?  Which hotplug agent is loading it?
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How do I tell the answers to those Qs?

The relevant syslog has been rotated out of existance. messages has 
kernel messages but no hints as to what was going on.

You can probably jump to conclusions as well as I about these msgs:
Aug 23 16:14:27 kowari kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, 
channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
Aug 23 16:14:30 kowari kernel: Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
Aug 23 16:14:37 kowari kernel: Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
Aug 23 16:14:37 kowari kernel: Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
Aug 23 16:14:45 kowari kernel: Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
Aug 23 16:14:45 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [01]:  sbpcd.c v4.63 Andrew J. 
Kroll <ag784 at freenet.buffalo.edu> Wed Jul 26 04:24:10 EDT 2000
Aug 23 16:14:45 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [02]:  Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)...
Aug 23 16:15:17 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [03]:  Scanning 0x340 
(SoundBlaster)...
Aug 23 16:15:50 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [04]:  No drive found.
Aug 23 16:15:50 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [01]:  sbpcd.c v4.63 Andrew J. 
Kroll <ag784 at freenet.buffalo.edu> Wed Jul 26 04:24:10 EDT 2000
Aug 23 16:15:50 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [02]:  Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)...
Aug 23 16:16:22 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [03]:  Scanning 0x340 
(SoundBlaster)...
Aug 23 16:16:55 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [04]:  No drive found.
Aug 23 16:16:55 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [01]:  sbpcd.c v4.63 Andrew J. 
Kroll <ag784 at freenet.buffalo.edu> Wed Jul 26 04:24:10 EDT 2000
Aug 23 16:16:55 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [02]:  Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)...
Aug 23 16:17:27 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [03]:  Scanning 0x340 
(SoundBlaster)...
Aug 23 16:18:00 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [04]:  No drive found.
Aug 23 16:18:00 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [01]:  sbpcd.c v4.63 Andrew J. 
Kroll <ag784 at freenet.buffalo.edu> Wed Jul 26 04:24:10 EDT 2000
Aug 23 16:18:00 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [02]:  Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)...
Aug 23 16:18:32 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [03]:  Scanning 0x340 
(SoundBlaster)...
Aug 23 16:19:05 kowari kernel: sbpcd-0 [04]:  No drive found.
Aug 23 16:24:37 kowari kernel: hde: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 
2048kB Cache
Aug 23 16:24:37 kowari kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Aug 23 16:24:37 kowari kernel: hdf: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Aug 23 16:28:10 kowari kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 16:28:17 kowari kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 16:28:48 kowari kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 16:35:38 kowari kernel: usb 3-5: USB disconnect, address 2
Aug 23 16:44:27 kowari kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Aug 23 16:44:32 kowari kernel: cdrom: open failed.