Re: Hotplug can configure XFree86

[Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>]

On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 19:23, Stamatis Mitrofanis wrote:
>    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?)

Someone has approached devel@xfree86.org about this topic, I hope.
It would be wonderful to work with the xfree86 folks directly on this.

	Miles


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