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Here's one for the wishlist:
Feisty's driver manager for e.g. the NVidia drivers is really good
stuff! Well done!Similarly great work on the auto-downloader of codecs
for non-supported media (e.g. mp3 etc)
How about extending this functionality to cover hardware people plug in:
e.g. use case:
User plugs in a webcam supported (or not!) by linux:
Window should pop up, saying something like: 'You've plugged in a {brand}
Webcam, we're searching for known linux drivers...' and offer a click and play
driver install if the driver exists / is supported. If not, say - sorry but no
known driver exists for this hardware on Linux.
Currently, hardware support in Ubuntu is good, but especially for
webcams it relies a lot on users downloading and compiling their own
stuff from a host of sources: way outside of 'average users' skills(?)
and certainly within the possibilities of Ubuntu to automate! Also -
instead of users going to developers' personal homepages to download, it
would be great to include these drivers on the Ubuntu universe server or
similar
References:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCameras
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Status: Unconfirmed
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Wishlist: Drivers for more webcams/hardware + auto-suggest driver for attached
hardware
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105221
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