[Nut-upsuser] hidups Vs newhidups (was: SUSE 10.0 packaging)

[Arnaud Quette]

2006/1/13, Paul Mogren <fkamogee at yahoo.com>:
>
> This thread is FYI. I don't need any help here.
>

no, but some details for those who will read it, maybe ;-)

I have SUSE 10.0 and an MGE Ellipse. I installed the NUT package from MGE.
>
> 1) The generated ups.conf pointed to a bad location:
> /dev//dev/input/event0
>

who generated that ?
it seems like an old hiddev / hidups detection that failed

2) The hidups driver will not work with SUSE 10 out of the box. To make it
> work (which was academic because I prefer newhidups), I had to:
>  a) Customize the kernel to exclude CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT
>  b) Add a udev rule: KERNEL=="hiddev*",   NAME="usb/hid/%k", MODE="666"
>  c) Set the port in ups.conf to /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0
>

we're currently in the process of removing hidups.
It will still be present in 2.0.x, but with a warning, and will then be
replaced by newhidups in 2.2.x.

So all hidups users are encouraged to migrate to newhidups.
For non MGE units (mainly APC, TrippLite, Powerware), you must use a
2.0.3-pre or higher version.

Arnaud
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