From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Dec 22 13:30: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E7B37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from nollie.summersault.com (nollie.summersault.com [208.10.44.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03A3643EE6 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:30:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark-dated-1041456589.747b61@summersault.com) Received: (qmail 23527 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2002 21:29:49 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO nollie.summersault.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Dec 2002 21:29:49 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:29:46 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: kudzu auto-hardware detection on FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Mark Stosberg X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.65 (Johnstown) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Recently I tried out the Knoppix 3.1 Demo Linux demo CD ( http://www.knoppix.com ). Running entirely of the CD drive, this impressive system booted directly into a KDE session, configuring the keyboard, mouse, video, sound and network correctly, automatically, without user intervention. I've now run the demo on 2 desktops and a laptop, and it correctly configured the machines in each case, despite the hardware differences. The backbone of this hardware detection is "kudzu", developed by RedHat, with a homepage here: http://rhlinux.redhat.com/kudzu/ The remaining work was provided by a "mkxf86config" shell script and a template XF86Config file. My question is- how hard would it be to get something like this working on FreeBSD? It would be great for Demo CDs, and especially for configuring desktop systems, where getting X setup still seems to be a chore. Mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message