README for the KDE System Control Tool v.0.1.x
July 19th, 1999


1 WHAT IS IT?
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The KDE System Control Tool is an attempt to build a hardware configuration
tool for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) very similar to the system properties
dialog of Win'9x.
The author thinks that current hardware information sources look cryptic and
are spread over the whole system, making it a pain in the a* to keep the
survey.


2 DOES IT WORK ALREADY?
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It already displays information about PCI and AGP devices, SCSI devices and 
IDE drives to a certain degree. 
In case the isapnp kernel module (see the ALSA sound driver sources
for this nice thing) is loaded, it is able to display ISA PnP hardware
information, too but I still need more information about ISA PnP vendor
and device ID's to make it really usable.
After all, development of this tool has started just a few days ago,
so please don't expect too much at this stage of development.

Please send any suggestions to <twesthei@physik.uni-bielefeld.de> 
(Thorsten Westheider) and flames of any kind to /dev/null.
