a better laptop testing system

[Corey Burger]

On 7/31/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 21:24 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > Now we just need a better way of
> > reporting laptop testing information, that isn't wiki based.
> >
> I had also begun thinking in that direction. One thing which I think
> would be very important is to make the effort work across distributions.
> Why have an Ubuntu specific laptop testing 'system' when it could so
> easily be used across all distributions?
>
> Do you have any idea how to proceed with such a project? I thought the
> first thing would be to contact some of main 'hardware with Linux'
> websites to get a list of what they would want to gather information on.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Duncan

Ok, very late reply on this, but there are many efforts underway to
test hardware (not just laptops) in Linux. Probably best if we wrote
something with a db backend and a frontend that could talk to it and
once we have tested it, reach out to other distributions and invite
them to help us. IE: Lets have code before we go out.

I should note, for the record, we are already have some of the bits in
place for the testing. Ubuntu already ships a hwdb (hardware database
client) that talks to a webpage (hwdb.ubuntu.com) that was developed
by Oliver Grawert before he moved onto Edubuntu and LTSP. Thus all we
need to do is to pick up that tool and flesh it out.

Corey