Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 pending On Monday 20 July 2015 04:00 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > To help others avoid the lengthy period of unresolved > difficulties, doubts about hardware integrity, and ergonomic > awkwardness I experienced, I suggest that laptop-mode-tools > ought to go further to avoid the loss of mouse/keyboard > functionality, and/or to warn potentially naive installers > of this package that possible breakage could occur and user > study and customization may be necessary to avoid the > issues.
The catch is that not every driver/device is a broken one. But yes, documenting it should be done. I just checked and realized that we do not ship a README.Debian file. Perhaps that should be a good start. > > Perhaps the installer script could display the lsusb output > and prompt the user to select the keyboard and mouse IDs > from the lsusb output and configure the BLACKLIST entries > accordingly. That is debhelper specific. And not all users may see that. Also just showing the device ID may not help. Will the user be able to build the relation on which ID belongs to which specific device? I recently had to blacklist one ill behaving device, and it took me some looking around to figure it out. > Perhaps driver type designations can or could allow users to blacklist > all keyboard and mouse devices by default. This is already there. Just not enabled by default, for the reasons that I explained above. Let's start with README.Debian and see how it goes. I've added the necessary content. Will be part of next upload. rrs@learner:~/devel/Laptop-Mode-Tools/laptop-mode-tools (master)$ cat debian/README.Debian Some common problems and fixing them My USB Mouse / Keyboard stops working after seconds of inactivity ----------------------------------------------------------------- Many devices advertise power savings but misbehave when power savings is triggered. Laptop Mode Tools, by default, enabled power savings for all devices. If you have devices, that mis-behave when running on battery, you can blacklist them. For details on blacklisting the device, please refer to the configuration details in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/runtime-pm.conf -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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