Plug and Pray rant

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 11:04 am, Nigel Ridley wrote:

> Actually the auto-detect during the install set it up perfectly (it is a
> standard 17" LCD).
> My 'rant' was "Why can't 'hal' (or whatever the script/app is that
> auto-detect uses during the initial install) be invoked when new
> hardware is added - such as a new LCD monitor?"

I have to agree with the spirit of the rant.  Hardware detection in Debian 
(and derivatives) has gotten quite good of late, but X11 is still a pain.  
Move your hard drive to a new computer, install a new video card, install a 
new monitor, etc., and you've got to go fiddle with X11 by hand.

It's down to a point where X11 is probably the only non-weird hardware I've 
had to lay a hand on in a few years now, and it really would be fitting for 
someone to bridge that last remaining gap.

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D. Michael McIntyre