[ILUG] hwscand

[Laur Ivan]

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 09:13, patrick doocey wrote:
> I'm a newbie so this could be very simple, though some googling didn't
> help...
>
> My son's PC (Suse Personal 9.1) is running very sluggishly, and when I
> run top, it shows several (8-10) hwscand processes eating up the cpu
> cycles. If I kill them all, it runs fine until the next boot, when the
> same thing happens again.
>
> It was running fine until about a week ago, and the only thing that's
> changed hardware wise, is that I have started plugging in his digital
> camera (via usb, and mounting /dev/sda). However the problem occurs
> even when the camera is not plugged in.
Hi,

afaik you can turn on and off the hardware scanning from YaST (in System 
group, the "runlevel editor" entry and then scroll down in the "simple mode" 
and you'll see "hwscan" of the first column. select it and under the table 
click "disable". on reboot, it should skip that phase. If it doesn't, then go 
with the "expert mode" and on the "set/reset" button (bottom right-ish) 
select "disable the service". then "Finish". this should definitely do it :)

Hope this helps,

L