From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:56:04 +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 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 _______________________________________________ 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