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

RedShift redshift at pandora.be
Wed Dec 3 05:19:27 EST 2008


Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> Le Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:10:34 +0100,
> Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> a écrit :
> 
>> Well, it does not produce working xorg.conf files. However: X -configure 
>> should be prefered; so there is no need for hwd (anymore).
> 
> It doesn't provide working xorg.conf files only since xorg 1.5 was moved to extra. That was less than 5 days ago... I believe it will be updated to take the changes into account.
> 
> To me, hwd is a very useful tool, so please don't remove it from extra without a second thought.
> 

Well I got to say about this that hwd has never produced a 100% accurate result for me on all kinds of systems. Even my old soundblaster live is wrongly detected as an audigy card. Let alone that I would trust this tool before the official Xorg tools to generate an X config.

Glenn



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