From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stamatis Mitrofanis Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:23:09 +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'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?) _______________________________________________ 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