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Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>IBM Thinkpad 600X:
>>
>>$ grep model /proc/cpuinfo
>>model : 8
>>model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
>>
> hopefully we have other ways to guess for a laptop. current code
> is:
>
> sub isLaptop() {
Will this not be incorrect for desktops with PCI->PCMCIA adapter (for
wireless)?:
> hasPCMCIA() || (matching_desc('C&T.*655[45]\d') ||
matching_desc('C&T.*68554') ||
This one at least will work for me (600X, probably 600E, 390X, maybe
even 770X):
> matching_desc('Neomagic.*Magic(Media|Graph)') ||
> matching_desc('ViRGE.MX') || matching_desc('S3.*Savage.*[IM]X') ||
> matching_desc('ATI.*(Mobility|LT)'));
> }
>
> (matching_desc being equivalent to output of lspcidrake)
>
>
>>Would it not also be worthwhile using dmidecode, to identify models? ie,
>>if a Thinkpad is found, tpctl etc can be installed?
>
> Why not. I didn't personally know thinkpads needed an additional
> package.
It's not necessary, but it would be nice if all the functionality that
you get from an OEM installation of other OS's from IBM was available
out-the-box for Mandrake. tpctl is the only one in main, tp4utils and
tpb in contrib are nice-to-have on Thinkpads.
> If dmidecode is supposed to not crash the machine (I
> suppose it tried to read in BIOS memory).
Does this mean you want me to test ;-). AFAIK, dmidecode is now used in
lm_sensors package to *prevent* probing of sensors in Thinkpad's (which
can be fatal).
> Any less invasive way
> to guess for a thinkpad? Anything thinkpad-special in
> lspcidrake's output?
Hmm, you will catch it with some "mobile" display cards, but not all. I
will look into this ...
Maybe probe a thinkpad driver (in-kernel since just after 9.1)? smapi
and superio modules seem to not load on other systems (ie my desktop),
while they load on my Thinkpad 600X.
Regards,
Buchan
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