a thought on laptops

[Thom May]

* Oliver Grawert (hostmaster at grawert.net) wrote :
> hi,
> 
> recognizing that there are a lot of laptops that need
> acpi/lapic/apic/irq adjustment in grub, i'd like to suggest a little
> project:
> 
> i know on my laptops there is dmidecode to retrieve model and brand
> name, if it were included in the installer, there could be a two column
> flatfile with the brand/model in one column and the grub options in the
> second column. now run dmidecode on installation, detect the model/brand
> and adjust the grub boot line based on a simple pattern match through
> this file. if the model isnt found it just goes with the defaults.
> i think this is an easy task with the provided tools. its in fact just a
> gluing together of already existing stuff but will make a lot of laptop
> users happier.
> 
Already on the todo list. (see the note about HardwareDatabase on the wiki:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryGoals)
This needs fleshing out and speccing - I sent an initial email to the
sounders list back in august with some preliminary thoughts.
Cheers,
-Thom
-- 
That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
The Revolution will not be outsourced!
(Slick/Monique - Sinfest)