Re: Installing xserver

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

Joris,

Thanks for the lead. It's always nice to have some hardware
detection. Does it build a database so that when new hardware is
installed, it opens a dialog for you to configure it during the boot
process?

The discover is a frontend for hardware detection tools, and you
mentioned one for the mouse (mdetect) and one for the monitor
(read-edid). Are there backends for other kinds of hardware, such as
scsi or a NIC?

Discover can be set up to make the boot process aware of hardware and
ensure the necessary modules are loaded. Is this meant as a backup in
case module.conf fails to do its job?

Discover has a friend, which is "discover-data." That seems to be a
database for common hardware, again to ensure drivers are properly
loaded. Do you feel it is really necessary or useful?

Haines