Hello all!
I would like to put forward an idea that I have, which could simplify
the life for Linux users...
The concept is simple, but the implementation is probably not :-/
Today, when I install openSUSE on my machine, it will detect most of my
hardware just fine. But there are some hardware that could not be
identified properly, for instance my monitors.
What I would like to see, is that during the install, some magic is
built in that can automatically (after the user approves) go out to the
internet to see if there are any drivers for the specific hardware.
There should also be an daemon running on the machine, that detects when
new hardware has been attached and there are no available drivers for
it. It should then suggest that it can look it up on the internet.
If a driver is found, it should be downloaded and installed onto the
system.
The hosting website should also be able to keep track of what sort of
hardware that has not been properly identified so that the next version
of the distro can include them.
For something like a monitor, it could be as simple as letting users add
the needed mode lines etc to the website and it would be downloaded and
put into SaX2's database.
I think it would also be good if that same website would know about free
proprietary (but re-distributable) drivers and let the user select
whether he wants to download them or not. We currently have this in the
"Desktop Effects" utility, but users might want to have the driver for
other purposes than a 3D Desktop.
Does anyone think that this would be a good idea and if so, how should
we proceed?
Thanks,
Magnus
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