From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stamatis Mitrofanis Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 00:11:13 +0000 Subject: Hotplug can configure XFree86 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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. Also, this way it can work flawlessly with the automatic driver download system I wasted (...) so much time on. One way to do it is to separate the XF86Config file to "hot" parts and a "cold" part. The hot parts are managed by hotplug and are merged with the cold part after every change. Unfortunately, this won't be very helpful for hotplugging stuff for the X server to use immediately while it is running, since XFree86 just won't reread its configuration file. What it could do though is set up the X server at boot-time. I hope you people find it a good idea. I am trying to do an implementation. _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel