On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:08:12AM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:37:06AM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Sluggers,
>>>
>>> Something wierd. Decided to install SuSE 11.0 with KDE4 to check it out
>>> and
>>> keeping my workhorse SuSE10.3. (different hard drives) Now when I boot up
>>> 10.3 I do not have any usb recognition, my sound chip is not even seen,
>>> and
>>> the printer is not recognized.
>>>
>>> A look at the boot log or dmesg makes no mention of the usb devices.
>>> There is
>>> a line in fstab for usb. Following:
>>>
>>> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto
>>> 0 0
>>>
>>> Nothing of usb to be seen in /proc/bus either.
>>>
>>
>> Well, that's sure a bug. The second field of the fstab file is supposed
>> to be the mount point. But you don't mount devices in the /proc
>> filesystem. It should be /dev, not /proc. Unless you mistyped....
>
> Tell that to the Ubuntu designers:
>
> desktop:
>
> eben@pc:~$ mount
> ...
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
>
> laptop:
>
> eben@kong:~$ mount
> ...
> procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
>
> I didn't change that aspect of either's behavior.
No offense, but this is one reason why I don't use Ubuntu. See
http://pathname.com/fhs/ for the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. /proc is
for kernel info, etc., and /dev is for device files. I don't know who at
Ubuntu thought this was a good idea. Worse yet, /proc is typically a
*virtual* filesystem.
Paul
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