On Monday 13 April 2009 09:33:53 Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 4/11/2009 at 7:24 PM, "J. L. Turriff" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Does Novell have an ombudsman for their bugzilla? > > Leslie, > > I'm not sure. But, why do you ask? > > > Mark > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Mark, this may be considered off-topic, since it isn't directly related to Linux-390, but I'm hoping that I'll get a pertinent answer from your list (the mainframe-related lists seem to be better at that. :-) ), and other subscribers might like to know too. I found a bug in YaST2 and Sax2 that prevents me from using the USB--Serial adapter I attached to my desktop machine. Both Sax2 and YaST2 appear to have hard-coded lists of serial devices that do not reflect the actual devices attached to the system. If an available device not on those lists is needed there is no way to configure them (in my case, for attachment of a modem in YaST2, or a Wacom serial tablet in Sax2). I opened bugfix requests for these two tools (I think that only Novell can fix them?) to request a change to allow my devices to appear on the lists. The one for Sax2 (494216) was rejected immediately with the comment, "This is really a very special case, which we IMHO don't need to support. You can be happy, that your USB->Serial adapter is supported at all. It's not that hard to replace ttyS0 with ttyUSB0 in xorg.conf ... WONTFIX" The one for the same issue with YaST2 (494217) has been forwarded on for review, so I don't know yet if it will be rejected; if they do accept it, Sax2 and YaST2 will then behave differently, which would be unfortunate. If both are rejected, I will be unable to use all of my serial ports. Yes, this is a "special case," and there are workarounds (kludging configuration files behind YaST2's or Sax's back), but I would like to press for a proper fix, and no-one seems to be listening now, since the Sax2 request is closed WONTFIX. Thus the question. Thanks, Leslie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
