Smolt Wiki

[Mike McGrath]

David L wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> Smolt now has an integrated wiki (http://smolts.org/wiki/) and ratings
>> system.  Submit your profile with smoltSendProfile then follow the URL
>> it provides.  This will allow you to rate your hardware and click over
>> to the wiki for your hardware.
>>     
>
>
> This is a great idea!
>
>
>   If you have hardware with issues and can
>   
>> fix it, please fill in the relevant wiki page.
>>     
>
> The options for hardware issues are:
> I don't use this/I don't know
> Breaks System
> Doesn't Work
> Requires 3rd Party Drivers
> Works, but required aditional configuration
> Worked out of the box
>
> What if my video card works, but compiz isn't happy with it with our without
> the 3rd party driver?
>   
I'd say for you, put down 3rd party drivers then.  We can look into how 
many people have your card and rate it with the new driver or the old 
one.  And if the drivers have actual different names we can query that 
as well.
> What if my webcam works with a 3rd party driver but freezes intermittently.
>   
"doesn't work"
> What if my webcam works but has poor quality?
>   
If you can configure it to work better then "Additional configuration 
required"  if not then I'd say "doesn't work" even if it sort of works.

There was actually a lot of discussion about how to ask for that stuff.  
Keeping the options simple seemed to be the best option as going beyond 
it we could easily make 20-30 icons.  And since its stored individually 
we can look and say "90% say this works out of the box 10% say it needs 
3rd party drivers".  The real cool parts come with the wiki.  If you 
have a card that doesn't just work, take the time to create a wiki page 
for it.  We'll have a scanner out soon so other people with your card 
can see "Oh, this piece of hardware has errate for it at smolts.org" and 
can then go get the details for themselves about exactly whats wrong 
with it or how to fix it, see bugzilla, etc.

    -Mike