By default, d-i will detect the precense of PCMCIA/PCCARD support and install the pcmcia-cs package. Almost all machines with PCMCIA support are laptops, and we should consider installing a few more extra packacages for these machines.
In Debian-Edu, we install pcmcia-cs and apmd by default when PCMCIA is detected. I suspect d-i would be better for laptop users if it installed apmd as well. Perhaps ifplugd and noflushd are good packages to install as well?? apmd - Utilities for Advanced Power Management (APM) ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices noflushd - allow idle hard disks to spin down sleepd - puts a laptop to sleep during inactivity There are also some HW-dependent packages which could be installed as well. This might be better left to discover 2, where progeny was discussing adding support for mapping from HW to debian packages. i810switch - Enables/disables video output to CRT/LCD on i810 video hardware i8kutils - Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptop utilities toshutils - Toshiba laptop utilities tpctl - IBM ThinkPad hardware configuration tools lphdisk - prepares hibernation partition for Phoenix NoteBIOS sjog - A program to use the "Jog Dial" on Sony Vaio Laptops spicctrl - Sony Vaio controller program to set LCD backlight brightness It might also be a good idea to use noatime by default on laptops, to reduce the disc acctivity and increase the chance of spinning the HD down? Anyone with opinions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
