![]() ![]() Currently, for a desktop system, hotplugging monitors isn’t something that people do very frequently, and for laptops, among many people I know it’s still pretty rare. This is a problem, given you need to restart X, but it’s being worked on. Works fine after restarting X and at native resolution for the given monitor (only tried LCDs). Yes, I did this 2 weeks ago when my ATI card died and I replaced it with an nVidia. They are trying to build up databases of specific keyboards and how they work, so it can autoconfigure. As far as I know, the main work being done on this (and media keys) is in the GUIs like GNOME and KDE. I’m not sure how possible this is, since keyboards (being relatively simple devices) just provide keycodes and there’s not much data that can be used to figure out what keyboard layout it is. This happens on Windows too until you install the mouse’s driver. Not all 7 buttons, but it works with the 3 important buttons and scrolling horizontally and vertically. This detail only has the capability to frighten half of the people which experiment a free OS using xorg. These are the little details that make people pay for a Mac or Keep windows. We’ll be there when plugging any X supported hardware works like plugging the cord for the toaster. ![]() How can we steal market share from Microsoft like this? From Apple? No way! Monitors have been plug & play for years now… It should start working on the fly.One would actually get the warning message saying a newmonitor had been found on both working displays. ![]() Remove your monitor and replace it for another (Hopefuly it doesn’t blow the monitor) now replace it with a graphics card from another vendor. Shut down a PC and remove the graphics card. Plug a keyboard with different setting Imagine the default is QWERTY and the new one is DVORAK. Does it detect the number of buttons and configure the mice accordingly? Install your Free OS of choice and then plug in a mice with say… 7 buttons. ![]()
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