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
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