Re: hardware autodetect

[Petri Varsa <petri.varsa@gmail.com>]

I've never heard of hotplug nor discover until now.  Very fancy.  ;-)

I bought a new video card the other day (after installing sarge). 
Being an old-fashioned kind of person, I reboot into single user mode
and ran
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" to configure it.  Then I do an init
6 to get back to multi user mode.

That worked fine, but there are some anomalies.  When I move or resize
a window, I get static on my display.

When I installed sarge, I was asked if I wanted to autodetect my
hardware, which bypassed the typical "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86" screens.  I'd like to rerun that auto configure, if
it's possible.  Is that just invoking discover?

Maybe it's a hardware problem, since the video card was used?

thanks,

-petri




On 6/24/05, Clinton V. Weiss <cvweiss@comcast.net> wrote:
> Petri Varsa wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > does anybody know how to rerun the hardware autodetect program that is
> > executed when you install sarge?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -petri
> 
> I'm assuming you mean hotplug and discover:
> 
> /etc/init.d/hotplug restart
> /etc/init.d/discover restart
> 
> 
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