Felix Miata posted on Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:43:25 -0500 as excerpted: > How? Every time I login, focus is stolen from Konsole's restoration by > the inane popup announcing the presence of a floppy drive with no media > in it.
Well, here on gentoo I have the udisks, etc, USE flags turned off, and the related deps not even installed, so I don't get those sorts of announcements any longer. That's /one/ way to stop it! =:^) Unfortunately it won't help much for people running binary distros that ship with all that stuff turned on at build-configure-time. =:^( But... while I don't have that stuff turned on to check exactly where to look and thus must rely on memory, IIRC, there's two ways to do it via run-time configuration. 1) Removing the device-notifier plasmoid from your panel entirely /may/ do it (or not, I can't test), but of course then you'll lose notifications for cds and USB sticks you plugin as well, tho of course you can still deal with them manually, using the same methods used before the device-notifier was available. 2) IIRC, there's a device notifier config available either in kde system settings or from device-notifier's context menu (right-click), possibly both, that contains a list of all previous detections and whether to notify about them or not. You /might/ be able to turn it off there. Finally, since floppy drives are pretty much obsolete and rarely used these days, if you very seldom or never use it, you may wish to consider disabling the floppy in your BIOS and/or unplugging/removing it. (Probably not the latter on a laptop, where removing it would leave a hole, but it's reasonably easy on a standard desktop.) If you leave it plugged in and just disabled in BIOS, you can always reboot and reenable it in BIOS if you do need it for something or other. .... [Wandering OT now. TL;DR folks can stop reading] Even optical drives are /heading/ toward obsolescence. When my 8-year- old machine died about 15 months ago, I bought mobo/cpu/memory/graphics for a new one and hooked up the old drives and PSU to the new one, but didn't bother with an internal optical drive. I did buy a BluRay USB drive and CD/DVD burner, the thought being that I could use it with my netbook too, but most of my music, all of my software, and some video arrives via internet today, instead of the optical CD/DVD I'd have used a few years ago, and mostly the thing simply sits there, unplugged. And where people /do/ use removables, it's most commonly USB sticks today, so DVDs are only a few years behind CDs, which are only a few years behind cassettes and floppies, which were only a few years behind vinyl records (yes, I know records have come back in a niche, but none of the others have, and it's a niche that already appears to be dying again) and 8- tracks, which... They're all either already obsolete or quickly headed that way. ... I remember when one of the last series I watched regularly before quitting TV back in the early 90s (wikipedia says 1993-1996), SeaQuest-DSV (set in the then "near-future" of 2018), had its characters discussing the to-the-characters obsolete CD technology. In their world these little plugin chips had replaced spinning media. I guess the analogy would be if people bought read-only USB drives with their music on them now. I remember trying to imagine what it'd be like ... But of course it was the Internet, wifi and G3/G4 cellphone tech, that ended up replacing CDs with on-demand-from-the-cloud, before the predicted chip-based-albums were introduced. And while video technology has advanced and HD-video resolutions (with quad-HD on the horizon) have so far kept full-common-resolution video out of reach for many on the net, at least to the extent that BluRay video remains quite viable in comparison to CDA (CD Audio) music, the old standard-resolution video is, like CD-quality audio, often most conveniently delivered via internet, and for many, even HD-quality is competitive, BluRay physical optical disc vs internet. In another decade, or even a half-decade, BluRay will likely succumb as well, and only a move to quad-HD might possibly keep physical video delivery viable. But even if it does to that point, beyond that, a decade to decade and a half out, quad-HD is likely to be the limit where people simply aren't going to pay more for better quality video just as CDs were for audio, and HD-Audio never took off due to lack of demand. It'd debatable whether quad-HD will take off, in fact, tho I think it still has a better chance than HD-Audio did, as with 42-inch or larger screens, quad-HD does arguably provide a discernibly better viewing experience, while HD-Audio simply isn't better enough for most people to justify paying more for it, as people do when a technology is new. So if not within 5 years if quad-HD doesn't take off, within 10-15, as networks speeds get fast enough to competitively deliver quad-HD quality and the next level isn't enough better to justify paying, I expect even video will succumb to net delivery, and physical media of any sort will begin to look like floppies or 8-tracks do to us today -- hopelessly obsolete. But back to topic... Unless you have some unusual use for them, floppies /are/ obsolete, and I'd simply disable it in the BIOS, as in fact I had done for several years with the floppy on my old machine before I upgraded. Then the system doesn't see the floppy even if it's still physically installed, and you've nicely solved your popup problem at the hardware (well, BIOS, so firmware, unplugging it would be the hardware...) root! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
