On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:22:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > That would be cool. You wanna patch dbootstrap -- we could even make > > that conditional on the pci stuff being there at all.. > > I'm in the midst of building a patch to dboostrap now. I'll throw in a > check to see if /proc/bus/pci exists, and if not we'll skip the "do you > want to autodetect PCI devices" question altogether. > > > Please don't commit into mainstream boot-floppies yet -- it needs more > > help. > > No prob. I'll send the patch to this list when it's done. > > > While you're at it -- perhaps you could try to come up with some > > patches against xviddetect so it knows about more cards? It really > > I'll look at it. I'm using a table of device->driver mappings I stole > from RH 6.2, so unless it has the X info, I don't. > > > If you're not a Debian maintainer, I'm happy to do NMU's against Well, it looks like everybody's doing the same thing at the same time. At Progeny, Joseph Carter has been developing a libdetect based program called "discover" which spits out the correct X server (for 3.x) or X server and driver (for 4.x) given the PCI info. I'm writing a program called "dexter" (for Debian X server configurator) which uses this information if it is present. I don't know when Joseph plans to submit his discover program to Debian, but dexter (and modified xserver-* postinst scripts to take advantage of it) will be showing up in phase2v14. Dexter is presently feature-complete for Progeny's purposes. Also, I'm deliberately doing things in such a way that there is no need for a fork between Progeny's X packages and Debian's. If Dexter doesn't find /var/state/discover/video, it prompts the user for the server (or server+driver) to use, which isn't really worse than the present way of doing things. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux | emacs is always overkill. branden@debian.org | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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