On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:00:56 +0200 Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that won't work, suppose the following scenario: > > User buys a new eeepc, tinkers with Xandros, and: > - Turns the webcam off (won't be seen on lsusb) > - Turns WiFi off (won't be seen on lspci thanks to pciehp) > - Turns bluetooth off (won't be seen on lsusb) > > How do you detect these features? Send ACPI commands, turn everything on, > detect them (lspci/lsusb/iwconfig/whatever), turn everything off?
Probe for hardware by sending exploratory commands through possible acpi interfaces to turn the hardware on. Then test and cache the results in /var so we don't have to probe again. Ben _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
