laptop detection (was Re: dmesg broken)

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 19 12:51:59 UTC 2005


On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:16:53PM +0000, Toby Kelsey wrote:
> 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?

Warty to Breezy already did so for pcmcia-cs (more accurately, it
checked whether you had any PCMCIA sockets). In Dapper we've just gone
for installing the new pcmciautils by default, since it simplifies a
number of things and has minimal impact on the system.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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