On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 06:56 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
The hardware database is not as up to date as we like to see it:-(
A suggestion: make a YaST module (or a separate GUI tool) that format hwinfo output and relevant suse/kernel/driver/Xorg/etc version information with a small input where the user can add information about wether he thinks it works or not. Have this tool propose to register user / machine(s) and send that information to SuSE and allow for SuSE to contact the user. And on the SuSE side: - use it to fill the hardware database with raw numbers of "unvalidated" work / don't work. Add "validated" status when SuSE knows for sure it works or doesn't work. - when too much "don't work" accumulate and SuSE and willing to do something about, contact the users with some more detailed test software or new RPMs (should be easy to install / remove to gain users not too technically inclined). Of course it might not make sense economically for SuSE to go after home PC harware issues, but server side that would be a great service to customers I think and may be a way to gain some new customers for SLES. Laurent