Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kai posts : > >>> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, >>> could they be pilfered for my purpose? > > The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff.
Ah, and there are even Debian packages for this! Cool. > They can be pilfered and you can re-master your own Knoppix CD. It is > very easy. The following links will be of help, > > http://www.knoppix.net/ > http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=87&subpageid=46907&ck= Well, I don't want to remaster a Knoppix CD. Instead, I want to change our existing Debian installation to auto-grok hardware, so that, for example, the same kernel runs on all of them. But it seems that kudzu can find a CD rom drive and add the correct fstab entry and /cdrom symlink. That's nice. It also appears to be able to help me configure the X server. But that seems to be a little more difficult so I'm going to have to work on that one. Currently, we have a lot of scripts in /etc/modutils that run `lspci -v' and do different things depending on its output. For example, various audio cards are recognized. I think that kudzu can do this job. It is, however, not extensively documented so I'm going to have to meditate about it. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
