Re: Hotplug can configure XFree86

[Stamatis Mitrofanis <ewstam@softhome.net>]

   David Brownell wrote:

 >...
 >
 >I'm making a fairly general point here, which I hope most
 >folk will agree with:  Linux desktop systems should do a
 >lot more "automatic detection" of hardware ("hotplugging")
 >than they've traditionally done, and demand a lot less user
 >input on configuration changes.  It's been getting better in
 >the past few years ... and I hope it'll continue !!  Likewise,
 >I'll hope that the distros will converge on at least the tools
 >in those areas, if not all the policies they use.  That's harder.
 >
Ok... Enough general theory.

The idea was that the hotplug scripts can autoconfigure XFree86. We
consider XFree86 to be similar to the kernel (drivers, modules,
devices...). The scripts _could_ map actual devices to more abstract
XFree86 devices.

I suggest that we do some cherry-picking from open-source installation
programs around to find good ways to complete the XFree86 configuration.
Then we can include things in hotplug. (right?)



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