[arch-general] remove HWD from extra and wiki!

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 19:14:38 EST 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 03 Dezember 2008 00:56:56 schrieb Thayer Williams:
>> The version of hwd provided by extra works fine for me as well
>
> Well, it does not produce working xorg.conf files. However: X -configure
> should be prefered; so there is no need for hwd (anymore).
>

If you put it this way there probably never was a reason for hwd.
But hwd doesnt only produce xorg configuration files.
It lists the appropriate kernel modules for your hardware in a very
user friendly
way. I guess lshwd did that in the past.

Greg



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