On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Matt Taggart wrote: > Have you tried /usr/bin/update-pciids from the pciutils packages? :)
No, I did't :( Another one I missed. Thanks for pointing that out. > I don't know how much hw-detection is done with pci.ids, it's mostly > so that humans can have reasonable strings to look at. Allright then, my argument falls to the floor in that case. > The drivers in the Linux kernel all have their own lists of PCI ids > that they support. I don't know what kudzu/etc do, but I didn't > think their ability to support hardware was based on how up to date > their pci.ids was. I suppose (didn't look into the details) discover, hotplug, udev, etc. have their own way too. > Anyway we'll try to keep it as up to date as possible. After a > stable release happens I suppose we could update via a stable update > if needed, but we'd need to have a good reason. Have a look at the 'hinfo' package. When installing, it offers to setup a cron-job. Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
