Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Christmas list for the kernel | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:36:53 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2005-11-22 at 16:41 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > An example of this is that the serial driver is hard coded to report > four legacy serial ports when my system physically only has two. I > have to change a #define and recompile the kernel to change this.
It does an autodetect sequence to find the ports. If it reports ttyS0-S3 your system probably has them, they may just not be wired to external ports and that is kinda tricky to autodetect
> looks for everything again anyway. In a more friendly system X would > use the info the kernel provides and automatically configure itself > for the devices present or hotplugged. You could get rid of your > xorg.cong file in this model.
Not really as half of xorg.conf is preferences
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