Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | DevilKin <> | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-english user messages | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:39:35 +0200 |
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On Friday 11 April 2003 01:05, Jon Portnoy wrote: > A whole lot of users use dmesg output to figure out if their kernel is > detecting a piece of hardware. That's a very useful thing to have handy > and definitely not something that should be yanked out for the sake of > making it look pretty for people who don't know what they're doing with > their computer.
True.
Why not turn it into a kernel flag that you can set at bootup through LILO or some other obscure boot manager? Then you could boot linux like this:
linux dmesg=verbose
and
linux dmesg=quiet
with any of the two being the default setting. This way you can have the cake and eat it too: the verbose setting for those that want it, and the quiet setting for the users that don't want to get scared sh*tless everytime their system boots. I know I got scared first time I booted a Linux box :P
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