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Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone



L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Install 'discover' and 'hotplug' and that should take care of most of
> > your problems.  Those are hardware discovery programs.  They will map
> > the hardware found to the current device drivers.  Very nice.
>
> Whether both discover and hot plug are complimetary to each other or
> replacement to each other. If replacement which one is better. If both
> are installed what will happen

They are complementary.  The discover process runs at boot time to
load up statically attached hardware.  This would typically be things
like PCI network cards, PCI sound cards, and things like that.

The hotplug process monitors dynamic system events such as USB
devices.  For example when a new USB device is found hotplug will load
the drivers needed for that device.  Hotplug also interacts with udev
to create the required /dev devices.

So having all three of discover, hotplug, and udev is a good thing.

Bob

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