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ndbook

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Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 2

Installable Hardware Profiles

I've been an Arch user for a couple years now and absolutely love the flexibility, simplicity, and layout of Arch. However, as I get busier with life, I don't have as much time to configure basic functions of the system. I like how things automatically work in systems such as Ubuntu, but I like the underlying system of Arch a lot better. So is it conceivable that package groups could be put together for individual computers (i.e. pacman -S dell-xt2-profile would install all necessary components to get the hardware interaction working correctly)? These could be put together by users to apply to specific computer models or just pieces of hardware. This way, users could spend more time configuring their environment rather than getting stuff to work.

ZekeSulastin

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Registered: 2010-09-20

Posts: 266

Re: Installable Hardware Profiles

That sounds more like something you'd do in the AUR, actually.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,360

Re: Installable Hardware Profiles

Who exactly would be responsible for:-
a) creating these 'profiles'
b) approving that they're correct

Both need access to the exact model in question (and its sometimes not possible to know specific hardware from the model, especially cross-country). Both would have to run lspci and related to find out exactly what the kernel sees.

In Arch, the simple solution is that you do all that yourself. You have access to your machine (which others don't). I believe I'm the only one using Arch with my particular notebook model, and unless you have a bog-standard machine you MAY be the same as well.

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Installable Hardware Profiles

That sounds more like something you'd do in the AUR, actually.

Yup. You can find a few customized kernels like:

For netbooks
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34625

for HP mini 110-1020 netbooks
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33744