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Re: Add hardware to an existing system



On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:48 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> seems to me that it would be pretty simple to setup X to watch for a
> new video card and launch dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg on a reboot
> when there is a new one. Maybe udev could write to a file somewhere
> with the info on what video was detected, and some rc script could
> watch for that to change and make appropriate adjustments.

This seems to be one of the goals for Lenny, see.
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/XSFTODO

I also read somewhere that next releases of Xorg, 7.2 and 7.3 will focus
much on autodetection and making sure that you are never left with an
unusable X.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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