From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hotplug can configure XFree86
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:32:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100948526909904@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100923910820843@msgid-missing>
> Hotplug can be made so that it maps PCI device descriptions to records
> in the XFree86 card databse (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards) and update the X
> configuration file accordingly.
>
> This way we can have a nice centralized hardware management system that
> configures everything. ...
I certainly like the notion of the Linux distros having a better integration
story in such areas, but I suspect there's a certain matter of installed base
to worry about in terms of xf86config, kudzu, YaST, and so forth ...
- dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-27 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-25 0:11 Hotplug can configure XFree86 Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-12-27 20:32 ` David Brownell [this message]
2001-12-27 23:00 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-12-28 1:10 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-12-28 4:51 ` David Brownell
2001-12-30 3:23 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-12-30 3:56 ` Miles Lane
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