How about installing new hardware AFTER system installation?

[Hodgins Family]

Good afternoon!

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:41 +0100, Eric Feliksik wrote:
> Ubuntu is great, and it only becomes better.

Darn betcha!

>  Hardware support is 
> increasing, and most cases all hardware is detected automatically.
> But what are the mechanisms to install hardware after installing the 
> Ubuntu system? I believe plugging in a usb-mouse while X.org is running 
> will not make it work - last time I did it at my girlfriends computer I 
> didn't know how to get it to work without editing the config file.
> 

Anybody tried Kudzu? It's in the universe...
Kudzu works REALLY well in the RedHat/Fedora realm (personal
experience). Is there a Kudzu expert out there with experience in the
Ubuntu world who can assist this person?


> Is this changed? Or is there being worked on this to change, and let 
> added hardware automatically detected while X.org is running? How about 
> new soundcards, videocards, etcetera? (ok, let's not switch videocards 
> while X is running - but you get the point ;-) )
> 
> Thanks in advance for your replies,
> 
> Eric

Rob