Martin Spott writes: > [... Curt wrote ...] > > Something I've always thought would be cool to mess around with (but > > never even have come close to having the time) would be to put > > together a custom linux distribution on a bootable cd that > > detected/supported a couple of the major 3d graphics cards. > > Some time ago I did a small Linux system, designed to run from a 16 MByte > read-only medium (flash disk, network, whatever you want). It would not be > difficult to put FlightGear on top. > > The difficulty is to detect the necessary hardware connected to the machine, > especially considering the graphics board. Does anyone have a link > describing hardware autodetection on Linux ? I don't ....
Once the kernel boots you might be able to grab something out of /proc/pci (or other /proc entries.) There are probably hardware detection software out there too. I think RedHat does a lot of that (and I think Debian does hardware detection on a more limited scale.) Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
