More community involvment in Hoary development [Was Re: Re-detecting the video card]

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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Mark C wrote:
| Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
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|> not yet. I have been thinking on this implementation for a while now,
|> probably it will be part of Hoary.
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|
| I must admit, it probably me getting lazy, but these days, I just want
| to get my work done, when I first started using GNU/Linux around 6 years
| ago, I did not have a problem manually reediting my XF86Config file, but
| I feel these days, with the way GNU/Linux has evolved, these things
| should transparently happen in the background, or at least when you
| change say the video card, it loads the vesa module.
|
| Rather than put the emphasis on the distro, this should really be built
| into XFree86, or even Xorg, (which I have not yet used, it may even
| include it).

I tend to agree with you but someone needs to get the work done somehow.
There are several ideas floating around my head but right now my first
target is to get X.org out of the door. If you have a simple
implementation of such a tool, perhaps starting with video card change
detection. why don't you publish it or coordinate the development of it
inside our community?

I won't mind including it in the next release and it should be
relatively simple to code. Probably all you need is a lspci or lshw
wrapper with a init.d script that checks the hardware at boot time.

Just keep in mind that we need to be compatible with architectures other
than i386, so you need to figure out how to gather the same information.

Fabio

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