On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:30 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: > Perhaps this could be expanded in some way. > If Fedora finds any unsupported hardware it could display a dialog > informing the user: > - device class and vendor > - link to vendors homepage > - vendors contact to click (thus launching the email client) and ask for > linux-support (pre-filled email-text ?) > - link to fedoras wiki for explaning > a) why this happened (binary only firmware, ...) > b) instructions to get it running
Considering the PCI (among other) Vendor IDs are fixed and known, this is feasible. I have to give a third "thumbs up" on this approach. Empower the user. Don't lecture the user, empower the user. Excellent idea all around. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
