On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 21:33:52 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The idea I got was to add headers like this to the package supporting > specific hardware, and use this information to look up the USB and PCI > ids present in the machine: > > Xb-Hardware-Bus-PCI: 1af4:1002 > Xb-Hardware-Bus-USB: 1d6b:0001 > > This way the build system for the X video card packages could extract > the list of PCI devices supported by the driver and include it in the > control file of the package > We did something like that in lenny (not in the Packages file, but same basic idea), to get X to choose the right driver. It turns out it's a pain to maintain, and doesn't really work all that well. We should just install xserver-xorg-video-all. Maybe for other cases it's different, I don't know. Cheers, Julien
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