Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Hardware Config

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

I also have the udev and rules from zenwalk and it replaces hotplug as well
so besides X setup like you said se have other options.


Uel


On 3/7/06, Tony Brijeski <tb...@gm...> wrote:
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> How much of vlsetup is still being used to configure the hardware and how
> much of udev/hotplug are we now using?
>
> I think we should concentrate on setting up udev to handle pretty much
> everything vlsetup used to but it will be on the fly during boot.
>
> Mandriva has setup some great scripts and rules for udev to take care of
> most of the hardware so a hardware probe is not necessary anymore other t=
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> for X setup.
>
> Let me know your thoughts on this.  If we still want to keep vlsetup, the=
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> I will either have to try to find the source for it in one of my very old
> backups or I will have to take a look at the current hwsetup from knoppix
> and start from scratch again.
>
> I am thinking that the current state of udev makes most of vlsetup
> useless.  If we have the right scripts and rules, there should be no
> problems with letting udev take care of all of it.
>
> Regards,
> Tony
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