From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 12:02:01 -0600

Re: Setting the configuration automaticly

yiyus wrote:

> Hello GGI people,
> I am working in an installation program and I would like to give it a
> nice GUI with GGI. My problem is that it should look for the user
> chipset, clock, etc and configure GGI. Is (or will be) this possible?

Yes. Indeed I'd like to see a database and at least PCI probing:

- 5510 chipset detected => always these dependencies
(acclerator/ramdac/etc)
- S3 chipset: a wider variety of dependencies

Finally it would be good if we could crossreference the name of the
user's
board with the relevant chipset and build up a database of possibilities

(Xfree86's list would be a good  starting point)

> To hear your comments, this is my idea for the installation program:
> using svgagui with the svgalib wrapper, libggi and KGI or AA lib if
> there is no other way. What do you think?

Surely to do that you'd need GGI up and running already -- which itwon't
be.

Sengan