Some suggestion of hoary snapshot install

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:44:24PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:37:28PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> > Divendres 11 Febrer 2005 14:04, en/na Colin Watson (<Colin Watson 
> > <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>>) va escriure:
> > > That could be done fairly easily by having "English translations" of
> > > those strings; in other words, mark those strings as translatable in
> > > debconf and create an en.po that translates "radeon" to "ATI Radeon",
> > > etc. I can help with this if need be.
> > 
> > It could be difficult because several videocards have the same driver, isn't?
> > But the idea promises...
> 
> That's exactly the trouble with your suggestion.  The list is long enough,
> and if we start including brand names of video cards, it would be many times
> longer.

Not to mention that ATI cards aren't actually ATI these days (I don't
think they make *any* consumer cards, only the standard benchmark boards
for all their OEMs).  So 'ATI Radeon' would have to be 'ATI (PowerColor,
Saphire, Gigabyte, ...) Radeon'.
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