[Stephan Foley] > Hi Petter and thanks for the reply. Hi.
> Well, initally I was interested in stuff to use before installing xorg > to get good hardware detection for configuring monitors especially. I > wasn't aware of isenkram before, but it is very good to know about. I > am assuming it is used after xorg is in place to detect new media? The isenkramd program from the isenkram package provide a popup when new hardware is inserted in the machine, while the tools in isenkram-cli do not need X to work, and can provide a package list for hardware already present in the machine when it was booted. > When you say other packages, do you mean other packages normally > pulled in by X11, or would it be a good idea to pull those in > independently? I mean packages like colorhug-client when the USB dongle for monitor color calibration is inserted, or gpsbabel when a GPS is inserted, or nbc when a Lego Mindstorm unit is inserted, or the correct printer driver package when a printer is inserted, or the software needed to talk to a RAID controller when that PCI device is detected, etc, etc. See the modaliases file in the isenkram-cli package for other examples, and test the isenkram package with its user space notification daemon. > so, if it is better not to take up too much space on debian-edu, we > can talk there instead. I am already receiving too many emails, and do not have the capasity for that mailing list. I have no problem with more posts on the debian-edu mailing list, happy you showed up. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
