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"Just works with Linux"

"Just works with Linux"

Posted Dec 17, 2005 10:50 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624)
In reply to: "Just works with Linux" by tzafrir
Parent article: "Just works with Linux"

Yeah, but the Gnome version of Ubuntu has the hwdb-client package that
lets 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


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"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't
work in the hwdb-gui app.

Yes, I have disabled arts (the KDE sound server)..

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