This is an excellent idea. I'm willing to help, too. As a long-time laptop Linux user, being able to apt-get a package of handy hints and pointers to URLs would have been a great time and effort saver. Yes, I was able to find a lot of what I needed with google; if someone had bundled that up for me, even if it was six months old, it would have been an enormous help.
By the same token, I would much rather set the machine up myself; a package that supplied a custom kernel would be nice, for example, but not essential. On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:11, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: > I think it could be a good thing if someone buying a new laptop could > simply do > apt-get install laptopbrand-laptopserie > and then obtain in /usr/share/doc/laptopbrand-laptopserie all needed > documentation on how to configure his laptop, necessary kernel patches, > a working .config, a working XF86Config-4, pointers and links to > websites with personal installation reports, working configuration files > for other laptop-typical packages like powernowd and suggestions about > useful packages > > this could also help long-term users to share informations and fine-tune > their laptop > > I have proposed a package for each serie because I noticed that vendors > tends to use similar hardware in a new serie of laptops (except for some > things like video board) > > will someone be interested? > > -- > > Riccardo Vestrini > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Io ho una deformazione professionale, sono Ingegnere, e il problema in > quello che lei dice è l'essere umano, perché una macchina può sbagliare > ma l'essere umano ha sicuramente molti più difetti" -- > sconosciuto ad un congresso, mentre un manager parlava di risorse umane > -- Ciao, al ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Al Stone Alter Ego: Linux & Open Source Lab Debian Developer Hewlett-Packard Company http://www.debian.org E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
