need to emulate hw-detect's /etc/modules setup

[Andrea Garbarini]

running the beta live cd

I noticed the /etc/modules file is empty after installation, in particular, the debian installer on my box usually adds the "lp" and "psmouse" in that file, but this is not the case when installing through espresso. Regards, andre

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Sounds like a dup of 40311 but I'm not sure.

[Andrea Garbarini (garba)]

Yep, it is, I must have overlooked it when checking the bug list, marked as duplicate of bug 40311.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is not a duplicate of bug 40311. The problem here is that the code that normally does hardware detection and /etc/modules creation in d-i isn't used in espresso (and would be very difficult to use directly), so lp and psmouse don't get added.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed in my bzr branch; it'll be in the next upload. Using hw-detect directly turned out to be easier than I'd expected.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (0.99.77) dapper; urgency=low

  * Run hw-detect to set up /etc/modules properly (closes: Malone #40826).
  * Mimic base-installer's logic to configure initramfs-tools with an
    appropriate resume partition (closes: Malone #42299).
  * Fix logging in apply_keyboard.
  * Handle trfu/trqu console keymaps the same way as trf/trq (closes: Malone
    #37867).
  * Map croat console keymap to hr (closes: Malone #43598).
  * Mimic xserver-xorg's logic regarding alternate US layouts for non-Latin
    keymaps.
  * Map et console keymap to ee (closes: Malone #42800).
  * Handle fi-latin1 console keymap the same way as fi (closes: Malone
    #42650).
  * Map mk, nl, ro, and ru console keymaps to the X keymaps by the same
    names.
  * Map gr console keymap to gr, and add it to the list of non-Latin
    keymaps.
  * Change sr-cy console keymap to map to cs, not sr, following
    xkeyboard-config changes. Add this to the list of non-Latin keymaps.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: hw-detect 1.32ubuntu6.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 8 May 2006 17:39:19 +0100

[Andrea Garbarini (garba)]

great, i'll be doing some testing tomorrow and report back to you to make sure everything works ok, at least on my box ;) regards, andre

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

For all people whose parallel printer is not detected after a dapper installation (bug duplicates): Please do

  sudo modprobe lp
  echo lp | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

to fix it on the spot (first command) and permantently (second command). This bug is fixed for installs with current CDs.