Recently, my installation of Mandriva started to boot up really slowly, hanging for nearly a minute at the "setting hostname" message during the boot process.
Some research concluded that it could be a USB device causing the system to hang, and by unplugging one device at a time and rebooting, I tracked the problem down to my USB MidiSport UNO. I had not even considered looking for drivers for the unit, because the available software for producing music under Linux is not very mature yet, unfortunately, and that is one of the reasons I continue to have Windows installed on my machine.
After doing some research, however, I realized that there is actually a driver for the device, and it is included in the Mandriva package manager. It is called ezusbmidi, and after installing the package, my boot problem went away. I have yet, however, figured out how to actually use it in LMMS to receive MIDI signals. That is a project for another time I guess.
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