harmless(?) hotplug errors on boot

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 19.11.2004, 08:51 -0800 schrieb Bill Stoye:
> easy_target:
> I'm one step removed from "n00b" myself, and have been wanting to put a
> stop to the 'Fail' messages on boot, 'Fail' messages are scary to a
> retired aircraft mechanic!
> 
> When someone refers to a file(in this case: "/etc/hotplug/blacklist"), I
> usually take a look at the file by opening it as a regular "user" with
> 'gedit'(Found in menu: Applications -> Accesories -> 'Text Editor') and
> see what is in the file and try to understand what I need to do. If it's
> something I can deal with, then I'll go ahead and open the file as
> 'Supper User', as follows:
> $ "sudo gedit /etc/hotplug/blacklist"(everything between quotes)
> Password:***** (enter your user password)
> 
> Gedit will open, you'll see the file and can make changes to it:
> Any of the lines with a # sign in the beginning of it are "uncommented
> out", that is they are not recognized by the program looking at this
> file and are only informational. So we should be able to add the two
> module names("shpchp" and "pciehp") to the list; highlighting the email
> instructions or commands and pasting them into the editor works well for
> me because it puts a stop to my dyslexia(prevents transposing errors).
> After, remembering to 'save' the changes, close the editor and reboot.
> 
> Worked well for me. Hope I wasn't too wordy or assuming and works for
> you.
would you mind making a wiki page out of this ? it is such a beautiful
writing and deals so carefull with the issue that i would love to point
inexperienced users to it if the question comes up.

:)

ciao
	oli


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