On 12/16/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kevin bailey wrote:
> Something I've never known how to do?!?!
>
> Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
> I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
>
> Now I take it that during inst
kevin bailey wrote:
Something I've never known how to do?!?!
Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
various modules were se
> > 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.
>
> sweet!
This article has a little more info,
http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2112259&tid=53&tid=96
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Che
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:39:23PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> 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
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
On 12/15/06, Jacques Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:26:22PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> >While you are right, I see one special case. It is not the case here but
> >if you change your booting devices, you will need to rebuild the
> >initramfs. I am mainly speakin
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> > The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only
> > during the installation, unless you've changed it manually.
> >
> > Answering about the video
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote:
> Something I've never known how to do?!?!
>
> Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
> I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
>
> Now I take it that during installation the h
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
>
> - Video card: Probably it will be properly detected and the kernel
> module will be loaded, but you will still need to reconfigure your
> Xorg if it uses a different chipset than the older card. You can
> reconfigure the package x
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:26:22PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> >While you are right, I see one special case. It is not the case here but
> >if you change your booting devices, you will need to rebuild the
> >initramfs. I am mainly speaking about adding a drive or controller which
> >change the o
On 12/15/06, Jacques Normand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only
> during the installation, unless you've changed it manually.
>
> Answering about the video card and dvd burn
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:42:17PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> The hardware is detected during the boot process too and not only
> during the installation, unless you've changed it manually.
>
> Answering about the video card and dvd burner:
>
> - Video card: Probably it will be properly detec
On 12/15/06, csanyipal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote:
>
> Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
> various modules were selected and loaded. How to I tell the system to load
> the new modules required?
C
kevin bailey wrote:
> Something I've never known how to do?!?!
>
> Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
> I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
>
> Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
> various mod
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:14:27PM +, kevin bailey wrote:
>
> Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
> various modules were selected and loaded. How to I tell the system to load
> the new modules required?
Compile the new kernel with support for that new har
Something I've never known how to do?!?!
Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
various modules were selected and loaded. Ho
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