[Devil-linux-develop] H/W Detection: hwsetup from knoppix

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

Hello,

I googled on H/W detection and discovered Kloopix, a CD Boot Linux created by
Mr Kloop which he has named after himself.

It uses Kudzu libraries, this will save me from having to learn the C language
at this late date.

It took a little digging to find the sources for his product.
http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/

PDF Slides on Kloopix:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix-slides-ifa2001.pdf

From the Usenix paper of 2000:

hwsetup - a selfmadetool that uses the kudzu-library [4] - detects
devices,loads all necessary driver modules for known hardware, sets up symbolic
links in /dev and writes configura-tion parameters and options to the
corresponding files in /etc/sysconfig/ on the ramdisk. Parameters that cannot
be auto-detected (frequency ranges of oldmonitors, desired keyboard layout,
language) are assumed with reasonable defaults. A single X-Windowsession is
started if the graphics hardware has been identified correctly. Default is
truecolor in a resolution of1024x786 pixels if possible, or 800x600/640x480 at
8- bit if the graphics adapter cannot handle higher resolu-tions or color
depths. If detected, the accelerated XFree (3.3) drivers are used with specific
options depending onthe detected graphics adapter. 


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