Re: about a database of hardware

[Helge H. <hel...@hi...>]

Aivils wrote:

>On Monday 08 November 2004 18:24, Jean-Daniel Pauget wrote:
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>>    I remember some peoples here talked about a database of hardware/software
>>    configurations suitable for ruby and/or bruby...
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>I think all suitable sets of hardware/software will be reduced
>to video card compatibility, because each video card under
>XFree86 uses specific driver, which is most important
>neither kernel version nor glibc version nor XFree/Xorg version.
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There is one added problem.  The pc bios tend to
initialize one card only, and some cards don't work
at all until the bios initialization have run. 
Now, xfree/xorg can run bios initialization for any
card, but that will only help those who want to
run X.  I cannot see how it will help those who
want to run fbcon on several cards.

Helge Hafting