On Saturday 16 December 2006 11:18, jtd wrote:
U think Acer tech cant read or use google? Instead why not buy acer's / equviv chinese stuff install debian and sell. It might require some effort initially but subsequent installs are a breeze.
Regarding sound u have not installed some module or lib. Eg if u use alsa u need esd-alsa for using several progs that use esd libs. Selecting one may not neccessarily select the other.
Just a passing thought, most of these laptops work nicely with bleeding edge distros such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva etc... But they require some fine tuning at times. Why not make new / modded distros adapted specifically for certain brand / line of laptops? The only difference between the original distro and the modded one will be ( possible ) inclusion of firmware ( which generally Ubuntu comes with but not Fedora ) and scripts to automate the fine tuning the process.
Alternatively, we can just provide a small "tune up" app ( for his particular distro and model of the laptop ) which the user can run after installing his distro and the app can fine tune the distro so that everything works smoothly.
The app will probably setup the wifi drivers and security ( WEP / WPA ) parameters, install the right Xorg drivers, configure the special laptop keys, configure modelines if needed etc...
Obviously we will need enthusiasts to provide us the inputs and for testing it on their machines!
Is there a project in existence which does the above?