Best way to authenticate hardware specs

From: Kristian (kristian_at_panda.linlab)
Date: 01/23/04

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    Hi everyone!

    I am not happy with how kudzu manages hardware detection with subsequent
    modification of /etc/X11/XF86Config. In the past, on videocard upgrade
    or mouse change, kudzu modified my XF86Config file to something that
    stopped the X server from starting up.

    Is anybody aware of a better way to automate hardware detection? All I
    need is to at least edit the XF86Config to the bare minimum required to
    start X (a 640x480 resolution with 256 colours will do) and allow the
    user to run redhat-config-xfree86 or similar to optimize the
    configuration. For this matter, I have been considering to integrate
    anaconda's probing routines into a driver program to be run at
    runtime... could this be done, or has it been done before?! 

    -- 
Kristian
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