Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@xxxxxxxxxx>]

C Hamel wrote:
> I have probably used/rebooted the box ten or so times in the last day or 
> so ...and so far so good:  NO LOCKUPS.  I disabled the hardware scan 
> (hwscan), finally, on all runlevels (having experimented with disabling it 
> one level at a time, as well as disabling jobs either side of that).  The 
> interesting thing is... it is reports itself as running after every 
> boot.   ...But so far that has worked.

What are the consequences of disabling hwscan?  I am having 
the same problem on my HP.  The yast entry in the runlevel 
editor says it does configuration, so I'm not to anxious to 
disable it if it performs any useful functions.
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