Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 06:03, Joey Hess wrote:
> > - I was out of the room for X config, and she gave up on the fun
> > screen where it asks (uselessly on i386) for a PCI ID of the video
> > card.
>
> I think that statement ("useless on i386") is _not_ true for graphic cards
> that support dual heads.
Ok, true. It's still annoying enough that my sister gave up at this
point.
> > I think that this is possibly aggravated by discover/hotplug wanting to
> > load two sound drivers, because in addition to i810_audio, it or
> > hotplug loaded snd_intel8x0 (alsa, right?). Here's how lsmod ended up
> > looking after I blacklisted i810_audio:
>
> Installing alsa-base takes care of blacklisting OSS modules for you.
I noticed that it turned them off in modprobe.d; I suppose that will do
it.
> > If acpid had been installed, I think it would have taken care of
> > loading all those modules. And it's needed for the gnome battery
> > monitor anyway. We need a laptop task! However, I think that even with
> > that, unconditionally register-moduleing fan and thermal is good from a
> > belt and suspenders POV.
>
> Yes, acpid takes care of loading the acpi modules, however putting acpid
> in a laptop task and installing that by default is not a good idea as
> some older laptops don't support acpi but need apmd.
> The same goes for a lot of other laptop (often make-specific) packages:
> works with some models, but useless or even harmful on others.
> My preference would be to let the user figure it out for himself, unless
> we are very sure.
My idea for a laptop task is to do acpi / apm / whatever detection and
install a tuned set of packages.
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see shy jo
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