Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

[psu25682@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de> writes:

    >> I think this is a very difficult point, how do you plan to
    >> solve this, choose the right Xserver and XF86Config file for
    >> the users system ? Or do you plan to use the fbdev server ? i
    >> think not yet all graphic cards have video servers ...

    Andreas> pretty easy: every recent graphic card is pci or agp, so
    Andreas> it's detected as pci device and listed in the /proc
    Andreas> file...

    Andreas> a list device -> xfree options/server/driver should be
    Andreas> easy to build (with the combined help of usenet).

 Hmmm... someone could set up an SQL database, and use that to enter
 the information.  Then a table for the distributed setup software to
 read could be generated by a formatted select query on that database.