no more ddcprobe? where is /etc/sysconfig/hwconf? is kudzu gone?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 2 14:04:56 UTC 2008


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 17:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> edik077 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me what tool have replaced ddcprobe? Also where I
>>> could look for my hardware I used to look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf,
>>> now I can't find it?
>>> Does kudzu still being used on FC9? I have it on my CentOS boxes but
>>> not on my FC9's? Thanks
>> Kudzu is not used in Fedora 9. HAL has superseded it.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> Which only answers half the questions. What does one use in place of
> ddcprobe? 

Ideally nowhere. It should just work but if you need Xorg configuration 
overrides, xorg.conf would do it system-wide.

Is the implication that lshal is how one gets the identity of
> the hardware in F9?

It can be used for that, yes.

Rahul




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