On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:52:58AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: >David Dawes wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:23:11AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: >> >>>David Dawes wrote: >>> >>>>The first part of the work I'm doing to improve the XFree86 configuration >>>>experience for users is now available. Some details about it, and a link >>>>to the source patch can be found at <http://www.x-oz.com/autoconfig.html>. >>> >>>Have you looked at the Hal library, over at freedesktop.org? >> >> >> Even the "0.0.1-pre" version hadn't been released when I'd finished most >> of the above work :-), > >No criticism inferred, Dave.
None taken. Just pointing out that it wasn't there to look at at the time. >> and the 0.1 version appears to only handle hot >> plugging of USB devices, which doesn't overlap at all with what I've >> done so far. > >Done right, there'd be a single-source repository of all "iron" >statically plugged or hot-plugged into the given machine. That'd free >other systems like X or Cups from having to do too much of their own >hardware recognition... > >That said, if there IS a need for a configuration file, let's say, >because you want to specify the active area of a tablet, or tell the >video driver you DON'T want maximal resolution (or whatever), there's >the need for describing/specifying the device you are addressing. There is definitely a need for storing user preference and associated configuration information, and to bind it to specific devices. For longer term solutions the users shouldn't need to know or care about the specifics how you identify devices internally though. >> That said, the method I've used is intentionally flexible enough to make >> use of whatever other device enumeration/matching systems might be >> available or become available later. For me, the important thing was >> to get to the point today where a user can just run the 'XFree86' server >> without having to bother (or know how) to configure it. > >Which is good, because we'll probably have different mechanisms on >different OSes to give us this manifest. Right. David -- David Dawes X-Oz Technologies www.XFree86.org/~dawes www.x-oz.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
