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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hotplug can configure XFree86
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:10:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100950197111501@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100923910820843@msgid-missing>

> I mentioned that there can be "hot" and "cold" XF86Config parts. The 
> installation programs can manage the "cold" parts which will contain 
> information that linux-hotplug can't (yet) retrieve. Eventually, the 
> "cold" part will become minimal.

Well, things that hotplug can't currently guess (as used in an
X config)

- monitor type
  (which lets you get the available resolutions and depth)
- users's preferred resolution
- users's preferred color depth
- pointer type (for non USB, etc.)

I realize I have a biased opinion, but I don't think that walking
the user through a minimal X reconfiguration (as opposed to a
completely automated change) is a bad thing on graphics HW change.

Bill

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-28  1:10 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
2001-12-27 23:00 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-12-28  1:10 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
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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