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  • From: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] So who's been playing with hardware detection?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:26:55 -0700

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:17:03PM +0100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> Hello All,

Hi Mark,


> I now have a Sourcemage box back in action and am taking a serious
> look at automatic hardware configuration. This is just a quick heads
> up message in case anyone else has done any work on this that I don't
> know about.

Glad to see hardware detection is getting some attention! :)
I don't know of anyone else working on it.


> After playing for a while, I realised that there is a bit of a chicken
> and egg situation - so I've installed from the 20020701 ISO and am
> going to try to bolt hardware detection on top and then work back to
> an ISO that can do it.
>
> First impressions on various options are:
>
> Knoppix: relies on patched utils - I want to avoid patches if
> possible.
>
> BadPenguin: main routines are libs for their custom installer. Again
> not ideal.
>
> Discover: Outputs XML which will need parsing. Otherwise looks like a
> contender. So far this looks the most promising to me.

Including an XML parser in the install could create difficulties.
Seems like overkill...

> SystemConfigurator: Another one worth investigating
>
> Others (kudzu etc): Not looked at in any depth

Why haven't you taken a look at kudzu? It seems to be a pretty
reliable implementation...


> I'm going to start small and see if I can use Discover to
> automagically set the sorcery processor optimisation settings.
>
> Anyway, if you have already done some work in this area (hardware
> detection and config) and have useful info to share, or want to help
> by checking further into any of the options - let me know and then we
> don't duplicate work. e.g. Anyone got a discover spell?
>
> If you're on the ISO team and want to give me pointers on what would
> be of most use there - let me know.
>
> If you're using SourceMage and want auto hardware config - watch this
> space for updates ;-)





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