[plug] Knoppix XF86 auto-detection

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 06:25, Garry wrote:
> 
> The Knoppix CD has a list of all the custom packages used, so it should be do-able. It is, after all, a debian system.. Tried doing a knx-hdinstall ?

No not yet but I'd like to.

I think that Knoppix has a few to many packages for a basic workstation.

If there was a much more cut-down version of knoppix with just the basic
xf86, kde or gnome stuff it would be more useful.

I think also rolling your own knoppix CD's is good for creating SOE's
You can boot off the CD then install it to HD and it should work
regardless of the hardware. Something you can't really do with Windows
and ghost images.

regards

Chris Caston


> 
> Garry
> 
> On 09 May 2003 23:31:53 +0800
> Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I just had some trouble setting up Xfree86 on my bro's new machine with
> > a MSI KM2M board with integrated S3 ProSavageDDR.
> > 
> > I ended up sticking in the Knoppix cd and copying over the xf86 config
> > files that it created.
> > 
> > This has made me wonder if it is possible to use such detection
> > automatically when you install Debian the normal way.
> > 
> > What does Knoppix use to do this?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris Caston
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>