[sllug-members]: Live CD auto-detected and generated x.org config

[Steve]

Why not just have them send you the output of lspci?

On Dec 16, 2007 5:10 PM, David J Iannucci <fyyht at punchcutter.ml1.net> wrote:
> Another question for the group....
>
> I'm trying to help out some technically-challenged friends who live
> far away by doing an install of Ubuntu for them on a computer they had
> put away and weren't using because Windows was infected or something
> (long story).
>
> When I last saw them, I just took their hard drive with me, figuring it
> wouldn't be too hard for them to get it running after I sent it back (I
> tried to find a way to burn a CD and do the install for them right
> there, but it was not to be -- even longer story)
>
> Unfortunately, although I noted their monitor model, I neglected to note
> what their video card type was (d'oh!), and I don't want to bother them
> to try to read it off the physical card :-}
>
> I had the idea that if I send them back a live CD along with their disk,
> I could guide them through copying the xorg.conf auto-generated by the
> live CD into their /etc in order to make sure the video is properly
> configured when they boot up.  But I've looked at the xorg.confs that
> Knoppix and Kubuntu generate, and it's not obvious to me that these
> would be appropriate to simply copy over and try to use.  Not sure why I
> think this... after all, that config is apparently working fine for the
> live CD, but......
>
> Am I worrying over nothing?  Has anyone ever done anything like this
> before?  If it is in fact NOT a good idea to simply copy the live CD
> config, then does anyone know of another way to accomplish this, such as
> an existing utility that will do the detection and generation, that
> could be run by hand off a live CD?  I've googled around and found
> something called kxgenerator, but haven't tried it and it really doesn't
> look very mature (which may be why it's not included in the distros I've
> looked at so far).
>
> Thanks again (for the second time in one day :-)
>
> Dave
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