What does anaconda know?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Oct 27 14:23:55 UTC 2004
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:19:12PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> if pcmcia exists
could be a pci card.
> unautodetectable monitor
could be desktop. a lot of old monitors
dont speak DDC.
> bunch of ACPI stuff
just testing for the presence of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0
will probably go a long way. This just leaves laptops
with broken ACPI (or no ACPI), which could be detected
with DMI strings.
> and then give them weigths? 3/4 "laptop signs" => probably a laptop?
sounds a little 'too clever' imo. The more complicated heuristics
become, the more fragile they seem to be in the real world.
Dave
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