laptop detection (was Re: dmesg broken)

[Toby Kelsey]

Thilo Six wrote:
> sudo update-rc.d -f hotkey-setup remove
> 
> This script tries to setup laptop keys, and causes this Problem.
> search in forums and bugzilla you will find it there also.

There are also other laptop-specific services I've had to disable
manually for my desktop system, such as acpi-support and pcmcia.

Can't Ubuntu detect whether the system is a laptop and not install/start
them automatically?

I've had to disable other irrelevant services including powernowd and
mdadm which should be automatically disabled, but this may be due to my
post-install tweaking.

Toby