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.
Recently, I have worked on extending the discover (v2) package to handle a mapping from hardware to debian packaages. The changes are in unstable, and the program to run to test it is discover-pkginstall. It will look at the available hardware, and present a debconf multiselect list of packages to install. 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. I hope to have this feature integrated into debian-installer before etch, so useful hardware related packages can be installed automatically on request. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
