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"Just works with Linux"
"Just works with Linux"
Posted Dec 15, 2005 9:36 UTC (Thu) by MarkVandenBorre (guest, #26071)Parent article: "Just works with Linux"
Isn't this what Ubuntu is silently trying to do with its hardware database? Collecting enough info from users for it to be statistically relevant, then through some degree of automation filter out a list of working hardware.
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"Just works with Linux"
Posted Dec 15, 2005 17:25 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Not just Ubuntu. Practically any distro.
"Just works with Linux"
Posted Dec 17, 2005 10:50 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]
Yeah, but the Gnome version of Ubuntu has the hwdb-client package thatlets you submit your hardware details to a database after running some
tests on each component that you answer to say whether it worked or not.
If (like me) you're using KUbuntu you can do:
$ sudo apt-get install hwdb-client
$ hwdb-gui
To contribute to the database.
Chris
"Just works with Linux"
Posted Dec 17, 2005 11:04 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624) [Link]
Although I've just noticed that whilst sound works fine in KDE it doesn'twork in the hwdb-gui app.
Yes, I have disabled arts (the KDE sound server)..