Re: Question about hardware detection
Hi Petter
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> The isenkramd program from the isenkram package provide a popup when new
> hardware is inserted in the machine, while the tools in isenkram-cli do
> not need X to work, and can provide a package list for hardware already
> present in the machine when it was booted.
> I mean packages like colorhug-client when the USB dongle for monitor
> color calibration is inserted, or gpsbabel when a GPS is inserted, or
> nbc when a Lego Mindstorm unit is inserted, or the correct printer
> driver package when a printer is inserted, or the software needed to
> talk to a RAID controller when that PCI device is detected, etc, etc.
> See the modaliases file in the isenkram-cli package for other examples,
> and test the isenkram package with its user space notification daemon.
This is really nice, I'm impressed. I had no idea people used so many
different devices and the world has really changed in the past few
years...that Lego Mindstorm actually looks super cool :-) For now, we
are more thinking about monitors and doing xorg config, but it is good
to be informed about what is out there. Does it auto mount basic media
such as flash drives and external hard drives?
> I am already receiving too many emails, and do not have the capasity for
> that mailing list. I have no problem with more posts on the debian-edu
> mailing list, happy you showed up. :)
Totally agree about the emails...I'm new to Debianland and I'm now
swamped with messages!
Thanks again for your time,
Steve
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