Hi, <div>On 7/24/07, xt knight <<a href="mailto:xt.knight@gmail.com">xt.knight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The IdeaPool had an idea about a "checker" that would notify the user of Linux's support of his devices. ( <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IdeaPool#head-840a946630b2112c0d2ca651b11d8a52171564fe">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IdeaPool#head-840a946630b2112c0d2ca651b11d8a52171564fe </a> ) I decided to attempt to implement this. How it works right now is that a modules.pcimap file is provided from /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ and a few WinNT APIs are used to get a list of PCI IDs from the host Windows PC. Then, the computer's PCI IDs are checked against that pcimap file for Linux support. Support for USB could probably be added easily with modules.usbmap. Likewise for ISA by means of modules.isapnpmap , Firewire, etc... The Windows Device Manager keeps a cache of devices that "have been" plugged in, so the user would not need to plug anything additional in to check support for every device he has used in the past on that system. As far as I can tell this should work perfectly. As it stands, this should work under Windows NT 4 and up, AFAIK. The way it is implemented right now, different APIs must be used for Win98. I'm not sure about Vista but I think it's fine there also. My main question(s): Is this wanted, or needed, for Ubuntu? I heard there was talk of a Windows Ubuntu installer. I've never personally inserted a Ubuntu CD into Windows myself so I have no idea where we're at in that stage right now.</blockquote><div> this might be the installer that you refer to: <a href="http://wubi-installer.org/index.php">http://wubi-installer.org/index.php</a> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How would this be presented to the user? Should it pop up before the installer wizard? Should it be in the installer wizard, and if so, at which stage? What programming language should it be coded in to ensure compatibility? How would localization be handled? </blockquote><div> Do you have a prototype of this that we could test? </div> Seems like a neat idea. Thanks, Todd <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thank you for your time. Andy Matteson xtknight on IRC, <a href="mailto:xt.knight@gmail.com">xt.knight@gmail.com</a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com"> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>