Some suggestion of hoary snapshot install

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:41:27PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> For that I suggest to pass from this technical names screen to two screens: 
> one for manufacturer name and one for model name. So with that, we don't 
> select "radeon" name in one screen. Instead of that, we choose "ATI" in 
> manufacturer screen and "Radeon 9200" in the model screen. Internally ubuntu 
> installer knows that "ATI" + "Radeon 9200" = "radeon" driver.

I think this is a lot of effort for a screen no-one should actually ever
see.

> But the trouble with that is that the same videocard could work with several 
> drivers. For example ATI Radeon 9200 could works with radeon, ati, vesa and 
> fb. So the assignation is not univoque and so ubuntu installer have not easy 
> work to selecting what driver choose for ATI Radeon 9200 from avaliable 
> drivers (and if it have easy work, some (expert) people perhaps wants to run 
> ATI Radeon 9200 with some specific drivers (fb instead of radeon for 
> example)).

Um, if people want to do that, then they can do that, but it's not
something we should be supporting in our installer.

> I think a lot of that and perhaps the best solution I think is:
> 
> 1) First translate the technical names to more large technical names.
> For example translate "fb" to "Framebuffer (fb)", .... This is optional.

This fails the 'my mum' test: my mum doesn't know what a framebuffer is.

She has an ATI RageIIC in her machine, and would hardly know what that
is.

> 2) Near the name, put a button of "information/help". When we press that 
> button, appears a dialog with information of all videocard that could work 
> with that driver.

Do you have any idea how huge those dialogs would be?  Not to mention if
they were incomplete, it would be a problem -> ATI releases the X860
after Hoary's release, the dialog doesn't include that although it is
perfectly capable since it's a r4xx, and people get confused.

> What do you think?
> Perhaps you could pick some idea for that.

No disrespect intended, but I think the way we have it is just fine
right now, especially with vendor defaults for the most popular
manufacturers (e.g. if it's an ATI card that we don't know about,
just put in 'ati' and hope for the best).
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