From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stamatis Mitrofanis Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:00:28 +0000 Subject: Re: Hotplug can configure XFree86 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org David Brownell wrote: >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 ... > The installation programs I've seen so far only provided a once-and-for-all static configuration file. I'll be fully satisfied with Linux hardware management when I can freely swap hard drives with any computer and still see the system come up just as it used to. The ugliest problem to solve is that of the X server not coming up when the graphics adapter has changed. I couldn't find so far a better solution than to integrate some autoconfiguration with the linux-hotplug scripts. 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. _______________________________________________ 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