On Fri, 01 Sep 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Would you like to have gtkpod installed automatically if an ipod is in > the machine? Or 915resolution if your video card is supported by it? > Or perhaps mpt-status if your RAID controller uses the mptscshih > kernel module? Until yesterday, this was not possible in Debian. Now > it is.
Yay! That's a great feature. Thank you for coding it. > But for this to be useful, a database of hardware->package mappings > need to be updated. At the moment a few entries are listed in the > discover-data package, but I am sure more of them. If you know some > debian packages that is useful or required to use a specific piece of > hardware, please report a wishlist bug against discover-data > specifying the hardware id (PCI, USB, SBus, etc.) and the package > name. I am mostly interested in packages in main, but also packages > in contrib and non-free are interesting. Ideally, we should rely on our users to send us suggestions here. But for that we need to write down a wiki explaining how to get the required information (lsusb, lspci, etc.). Of course, this need to advertised to a wider audience than -devel. -devel-announce seems a good option. > I hope to have this feature integrated into debian-installer before > etch, so useful hardware related packages can be installed > automatically on request. I look forward to that! Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
