Re: booting with same destop / app setup different video and network cards

[Åsmund Ødegård]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 12:23, Robert Fernando -ntlworld wrote:
  Hi all, Is it possible to configure linux to either auto detect a
  change in Ethernet and video card or allow manual selection of the
  correct drivers at boot time.  I.e. so that one hardisk can be shared
  between two pc with different hardware.
  
  Can the x Windows system be setup to use Intel Agp 470 video card in
  one config and a Diamond Stealth 2500 in a another pc/ configuration
  ?

 You might run a script from init which check the output from lspci, and
 adjust your config files accrodingly. Something like:

 if [ lspci | grep -q 'VGA.*Diamond' ] ; then
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.diamond /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
 else
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.intel /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
 fi

 and something similar with the ethernet. The ethernet I guess can be
 handled with proper use of modules, though.
 
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booting with same destop / app setup different video and network cards

[Robert Fernando -ntlworld]

Hi all,
Is it possible to configure linux to either auto detect a change in Ethernet
and video card or allow manual selection of the correct drivers at boot
time.
I.e. so that one hardisk can be shared between two pc with different
hardware.

Can the x Windows system be setup to use Intel Agp 470 video card in one
config and a Diamond Stealth 2500 in a another pc/ configuration ?

thanks
Robert Fernando
www.rowanclose.com

Robert Fernando
www.rowanclose.com
Fax +44(0)870-133-1992


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