How to generate videoaliases/foo.xinf for hwdata?

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Nov 5 14:00:30 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 10:38 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "AJ" == Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> writes:
> AJ> Not a huge problem, actually, since the avivo driver doesn't ship
> AJ> an xinf file yet.  But yeah, if you ship one, then kudzu will
> AJ> match devices with the IDs listed in it to the driver named at the
> AJ> end of the file, which means you'll be set up at install time with
> AJ> that driver.
> 
> On this subject, the openchrome driver that was recently reviewed did
> include a .xinf file.  Would this be problematic?

Openchrome appears to be a complete superset of the existing via driver,
which is unmaintained and in some cases actively broken.  So I have no
problem with openchrome actively claiming devices.

- ajax




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