Re: rediscovering hardware
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:46 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
> >> I should expect discover to rebuild the modules.conf file?
> >> (sounds like "Yes").
> >> I take it discover is not able (ever or yet) to modify the modules.conf
> >
> >Modules.conf is there for those modules which are NOT detected
> > automatically, discover dynamically loads all those that ARE detected
> > automatically.
>
> Oh MY! We have come along ways since I started using Debian. I wonder
> were my head was. Auto detect? Cool! I guess I sort of took some time
> off between versions. Of course starting with Slackware as my first
> distro tends to keep someone on a more hands on manual way of thinking
> about things.
I first saw autodetection in LindowsOS (now Linspire) and Xandros, but it is
now in Debian as well and seems to work well. I think the only thing I had
to configure manually and did not get quite right because I did not write
notes to myself after previous installs is getting my multi-card reader to
work. It works, just not as well as it did in prior installations.
8)
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