On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:32:36PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > d-i already installs discover1 on all systems, and it's probably best to > continue to do so instead of changing the hardware detection programs > that are installed depending on whether the user installs X or not. > > However, this does sort of suck since with 2.6 kernels, there is no > other need for discover1, since we're using udev now. It would be nice > if X could use some other method than discover, or if there were a way > to install discover w/o having it probe stuff at boot, since its added > probes are an added way for things to go wrong and an added hurdle to > jump when things do.
I've reimplemented what discover1 does in 100 lines of Python before (even using the same data format), so I'm sure I can do it again. Well, it's PCI-only, but eh. > xresprobe is a new one to me, I'll make tasksel start installing it > before X in the next upload unless someone tells me differently. Before xserver-xorg gets configured, yeah. > BTW, since xserver-xorg can't depend on this stuff, it would be really > helpful if the X maintainers would let me know when they add uses of > tools like this, so tasksel can be adapted to make them available. My bad. It came in with all the other stuff from Ubuntu, so got lost in the noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
