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Popular ideas Here are the latest ideas about Device Manager (gnome) that have been approved.

Checkbox-gtk test your hardware and can propose howto config it better  
Written by shawe_ewahs the 20 Sep 09 at 11:51. New
Checkbox-gtk test your hardware for know if it works correctly or not, it can be used for know existing hardware in the world, and have information for how to configure it more correctly.

It can be implemented with a DB with information from hardware tested, and information like launchpad for how to configure it better than default config.

With a lot of people trying have it better configuration for hardware, can be able to have a database that also can autoconfigure hardware with little scripts and Checkbox-gtk can propose to configure it if exists a better way to configure it.
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Solution #1: Better Checkbox-gtk
Written by shawe_ewahs the 20 Sep 09 at 11:51.
Can be possible do a better work with checkbox-gtk, if it proposes to users of Ubuntu do a Checkbox-gtk test in here first run, Ubuntu can have a database of existing hardware in use, and people can contribute to have a better configuration of it.

A lot of people have problems with here graphical card, bluetooth devices, sound cards, ... and a lot of times, the reason that it don't work correctly are stupid things, like this:

* Add on "/etc/rc.local" this line "hciconfig hci0 reset"
* Add on "/etc/modprobe.d/nano alsa-base.conf" this line "options snd-hda-intel model=vaio". These occure with a lot of laptops and different soundcards.

And also can be solution for more complex problems with hardware that don't work well or need patches for the moment. Like my graphic card, that can control brightness by default, but exists differents ways to try to do a partial solution, that almost "work", it hasn't the best way, but almost "work".

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