Idea #7475: Hardware database improvement: hardware maintainers to help desing hotplugs

Written by cornbread the 23 Apr 08 at 17:37. Category: Hardware support.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

This would be a section of the hardware database where fixes that the community and hardware maintainers would be able to post fixes for specific hardware.

The fixes would then be converted into hotplugs and the any new users of that hardware would be notified of fixes and their description somewhat like in the software manager but for hardware.

For example: I have an x60 tablet I have added automatic rotate for screen resolution in a script file, added a line in xorg.conf to enable my scroll button to work, and patched my version of compiz to make rotate work. It would be great to be able to submit these changes for my laptop so all other x60 users could enjoy these fixes.

In the future this could also be expanded to enhancements.

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Blueprint hwdb-hotplug: Ubuntu

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cornbread wrote on the 23 Apr 08 at 17:39

Please fix huge typo! desing should be design...

madjr wrote on the 24 Apr 08 at 20:53

interesting

Craig73 wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 03:51

Definitely interesting... although I hope this hasn't replaced the need to improve the hardware database in general [ie - I still want an easy way to know if no one has gotten something working / or how they did it to support the scripting process]

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