Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Fwd: Libhardware (h/w detection) implementation in badpenguin

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

Hi,

sounds good to me.

Heiko

On 07/09/2002 01:41:46 AM "John van V." wrote:
>Hi, I sent an email to the author of Badpenguin, an Italian distro for=

>information on his hardware detection library, Libhardware
>
>--- Antonio Gallo <ag...@li...> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 19:31:02 +0200
>> From: Antonio Gallo <ag...@li...>
>> To: jo...@th...
>> CC: bad...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Bad Penguin] Libhardware implementation in badpenguin
>>
>> > I am working on support scripts and tools for CD boot Linuxes and =
I
>am very
>> > interested in the implementation of libhardware in badpenguin.
>> Yeah
>>
>> > Is it a standalone binary called by startup scripts ??  Can it
>easily be
>> > altered to work with other distros ??
>> Yeah, you did not need to alther anything.
>>
>> If you run the binary it runs "modprobe" on the detected hardware (i=
f
>you
>> want) otherwise it just report.
>>
>> It's your choice to have it compiled statically (the default) or
>dinamically.
>>
>> If hardware is not found, just hack the text files database and add =
a
>new
>> text line with the info about the un-detected hardware and it will
>work fine.
>>
>> About X-Window, it does not run modprobe but it can be used to know
>> wich X-Server driver to use
>>
>> > John van Vlaanderen
>> Slackware???
>>
>> >       #      Proud Sponsor of The Linux Society   #
>> >       #        http://www.thelinuxsociety.org     #
>> Hey i am of "Italian Linux Society" :-))))
>>
>> Kidding apart, it's sunday and is really hot here outside :-)))
>> I can help to integrate it with your favourite distro.
>>
>> Bye, Antonio
>
>
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