Hardware support category

Today, when a PSP is connected to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), a PSP is identified as a portable music player and the same dialogue as an ipod is run (i.e. do you want to manage this in Rythmbox etc)

As any PSP owner will know, the PSP can do more than playing MP3s, so it'd be cool (although a "nice to have" if Ubuntu popped up a menu offering more sophisticated options (e.g. set date/time, reformat and upload photos, upload homebrew games (if appropriate firmware is detectable and present, offer link to URL to fix firmware if not...)

Edit title: should be oFFer, not ovver

If this is a duplicate - I apologize. I looked but didn't see a duplicate.

Anyway, many people own tablets (HP, Fujitsu & others). It would be a great thing for owners of this type of computer to be able to use their stylus out-of-the-box with Ubuntu intrepid ibex. Immediate detection & utilization is key when it comes to pointing devices.

I would like ubuntu to recognise new hard drives automatically instead of having to jump through various hoops and even edit configuation files, which is frightening for a beginner like me!

After all, Windoze recognises a new drive, so Ubuntu should do no less.

I noticed that when going through the bulletproof-x wizard, it doesn't let you select the proprietary NVidia or ATI drivers as easily as you can after Ubuntu has been booted. I propose we should include that ability. Once that is done, the display should be refreshed to allow us to select a resolution that those drivers support. Otherwise it only lets you select 640x480 I find. This happens when connecting to a hdtv where the xorg.conf is not valid and I can only select 640x480 because of the generic vga driver that is currently loaded. So after the proprietary driver is reloaded, it should read in the edid modes that the hdtv supports and allow me to select one of them.

Nearly all people who possess a PC or Notebook also possess a mobile phone. There seem to be programs for GNU/Linux that make it possible to connect ones iPhone to Ubuntu but what about the "regular" mobile phones?

As I connected my Sony Ericsson k810i via a USB-cable to my Notebook - running Ubuntu 8.04 - I could see all the files on the integrated storage and the memory stick but there was no way to see my SMS, or my address book, or my calendar, or my contacts.

Space on the LiveCD is scarce but it really would be useful to be able to connect ones mobile phone to Ubuntu.

Gammu

http://www.gammu.org/

is the library that manages this and Wammu

http://wammu.eu/

the GUI.

We also have Conduit as a nice synchronising program. If adding Gammu/Wammu to the LiveCD would be too much, it would be nice to at least make Conduit use Gammu to connect to many mobile phones.

Would it be possible to have the X-Fi Beta driver come with Ubuntu or have it available in the restricted drivers list?

I've tried many times to install the driver for my X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty to no avail, and many other X-Fi users have the same problem.

on Hardy were not that hard to having gspca webcams working, and suddenly with Interpid the gspca became complettelly impossible to have working, just suddenly.

Situations like that should be avoided.

I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 that works beautifully with a dual-head setup in Windows Vista and XP.

With the laptop screen on 1024x768, external VGA monitor on 1280x1024 -- it all works beautifully. Under Windows.

Under Linux, for some stupid reason, the maximum total screen size is 1024x1024, which means that any dual-head configuration with resolutions over 640x480 does not work.

I want to run 1024x768 and 1280x1024, which adds up (horizontally) to 2304x1024. This works fine under Windows.

Under Linux, this fails, and it informs me that 2304x1024 is too big, and my screens should fit within 1024x1024.

If I set both monitors to 640x480, they add up to 1280x480 horizontally (the 1280 is bigger than 1024), which again does not work, but if I stack them vertically, the resolution 640x960 fits within 1024x1024.

As you can imagine, being forced to run dual-640x480 displays is completely unacceptable in an operating system that claims to be even remotely user friendly.

This is not the hardware's fault. It is Linux's fault entirely, because it works perfectly in Windows, and should be fixed.

Brother has printer drivers available on their Linux page in Debian form (http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html). I recommend adding these Debian packages to the repos. Not all of them work flawlessly so not all of them should be added. I believe they are proprietary so I think they should be placed in the restricted repository. Either way, it's more drivers in the repos.

It would be better if like package managers for softwares, ubuntu gets a GUI driver manager which helps in installing of drivers

I believe this must be a necessity as it will support more interoperability (sorry if the spelling is wrong)

Also it will help in users to shift from other OS'S as this one will not cater more about searching drivers anymore

I believe it should be a must and will increase ubuntu userbase

Hello!
I have Printer+Scanner Canon PIXMA MP110. There is no driver for printer and scanner in ubuntu now.
The printer driver for gentoo: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_MP110 exists but it`s not supportable in ubuntu. Scanner in MP110 is not supportable in linux. Please, make a driver for Printer and scanner(+program for scaning and save images) for MP110 in Ubuntu.
Thank you!

PS: sorry for my bad english.

Patches for new hardware come out all the time and the Linux kernel is regularly updated.

I don't think the current kernel procedure for Ubuntu is working. Maybe creating a default stable kernel, then a testing kernel then a bleeding edge kernel would be more beneficial to all users and developers?

As an example, I own a Hauppuage TV tuner card, ubuntu kernel just misses out on the driver for this card. Installing the test kernel will hold the driver I wont until the kernel becomes 'Stable'?

Since it's very common usb webcams being gspca compatible, would be interesting they being supported by default.

i know that you already can browse online for hardware that works o.k. with ubuntu. but i don't know how.

i installed ubuntu anyway thinking: "that weird colers on my screen will be over when i install the drivers."

so... i did it, and windows would't start anymore. i really like ubuntu, but i want to keep windows in order to play games. so i needed to re-install everything.

for people like me and other non-technical users( like my mother, i think she should be able to handle ubuntu alone ) it would be very useful to have the hardware-testing application telling of my hardware is compatible.

like... i don't need to browse online, the application just looks up the data and looks if it works.

this way, anyone can see if their hardware is fine( some people don't viset webpage's they don't know. )

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it would also be useful to be able to download the application and run it in windows. i would like to have an stand-alone version so people can put it on their USB-stick and test any computer they like.

For bugs related to processor architecture (think the Linux kernel), faulty RAM / amount of RAM, wireless cards (think drivers), etc., I think it would be useful to include information on the PC that is submitting the bug.

Developers would benefit from having certain 'machines' attached to hardware-related bugs because users do not always submit hardware information either due to negligence, ignorance or mistake. This way the bug process could be more efficient by adding information usually collected as `cat /proc/cpuinfo > cpuinfo.txt`, `cat /proc/meminfo > meminfo.txt` or `lspci -v > lspci.txt` without the user using the command line.

Launchpad would gather information about the user's machine by an apt-gettable program (or the user could enter it manually, if need be) and have each machine register to the user.

This way, I could register my workstation, my backup server, my work/web server and some other machines I tinker with to Launchpad.

Then, when creating a bug or experiencing a bug that has already been triaged, I could 'attach' my machine to the bug, giving developers more hardware-related information.

There is of course an obvious privacy issue at stake here, so maybe the registration of machines could be flagged as 'private' or 'public' (if they want to show it off) by the user, with 'private' being the default and developers being the only user who can view 'private' machines.

What do you think?

it would be cool if cd/dvd burning could be done without starting a specific program for the task.

files could just be dragged to the disk drive and then one could press the burn button.

I recently tried to get my desktop on my TV/monitor and got in serious trouble (it's one of the reasons of being on Windows instead of Kubuntu).
In Windows you don't need to do anything to get your picture on second monitor. While on Linux X has some serious problems and (at least I experienced that) doesn't appears on any of devices. This is a big problem, as it cast a grat "shadow" over usability of Linux.

You might ask why do I need two monitors?
Well for watching films and such.

I'm starting to think that this is a dupe.
If it is please report it.

Maybe it's time to totally change X-server and the way it works.

There should be a package with firmware for scanners supported by Linux in the repository. For example, I have Plustek OpticPro 1248U. I found it in the list of scanners supported by the Linux scan API, but when I tried to scan, it said it cannot find a necessary file. I had to search all internet and after all found the necessary firmware file on some fringe torrent.

I think such files should be included with Ubuntu.

Hi is it possible to configure Ubuntu to work for Tablet PCs effectively? I've heard of Linux on tablets, but all those distros offered were making the tablet screen a fully touch screen, which is not the same thing.

It seems like this is one of the next steps for Ubuntu. Touch screen support and handwriting recognition built in like it is on Windows tablets could really be wonderful. I swear to God I would use it.

When someone wants to get his Atheros working the first thing he need to do is to uninstall the privative drivers, then install build-essential and make. For last get, compile and install MadWifi.

One of the promises for this Ubuntu release was to be as like Ibex and get to move everywhere without lose you internet or something like it. It will be fine if Canonical compile the madwifi drivers to install them on a apt-get command. Currently there are 3 main drivers:

The principal http://downloads.sourceforge.net/madwifi/madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz
The new Hal http://downloads.sourceforge.net/madwifi/madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz
The ath5k http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/ath5k

This can also fix the problem when a new kernel is available because after install the new kernel is needed to do again all the process to get the wireless working.

I think this drivers should come as default on next version but in case is not possible at least compile them and put them default in Jaunty.