On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:30 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
Perhaps this could be expanded in some way.
If Fedora finds any unsupported hardware it could display a dialog
informing the user:
- device class and vendor
- link to vendors homepage
- vendors contact to click (thus launching the email client) and ask for
linux-support (pre-filled email-text ?)
- link to fedoras wiki for explaning
a) why this happened (binary only firmware, ...)
b) instructions to get it running
Considering the PCI (among other) Vendor IDs are fixed and known, this
is feasible.
I have to give a third "thumbs up" on this approach. Empower the user.
Don't lecture the user, empower the user. Excellent idea all around.
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