On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 19:27 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, July 02, 2004 4:12 PM +0100 Nando <nandox7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > A tool to parse and read info from monitors .inf files, even during > > installation process. (New monitors are comming up everyday) > > and include in this a feature to upload to a central database would be > > awesome. :) > > How about converting MonitorDB, currently a flat file owned by the hwdata > package, to a directory? This would allow other packages to update the > monitor list, and vendors could easily provide their own files to do this. > Or one could simply drop .inf files into this directory and some external > utility would recreate the existing file as an output, not part of a > package, seeded by the current values. > > What packages consume MonitorDB as an input? Just (basically) anaconda and system-config-display afaik. And they both do it through a common backend in the rhpl package. Note that I'd do the optimization of "have the MonitorsDB file and a directory for additions/overrides" since that'll make things start up a lot faster (opening lots of little files is slow) Jeremy
