Hello All, What do you guys think about having a hardware compatibility list for the commonly available hardware (atleast the ones that are available here in India/cochin). Admittedly, its a duplication of effort but I'm sure it'll save most *nix users the trouble of googling around for compatibility and trial 'n' error. Most importantly, there's help available locally if need be. In other words, if someone has success in getting a particular harware to work with any flavour of *nix, it'll be a good idea to have a central repository for the larger benefit of the *nix community. For the benifit of novice users, a database of dmesg wouldnt be of much help as not many would be able to identify a device say a cam by the name/mfg. of the chipset. I suggest a database in the lines of
Device Type (webcam, AGP, RAID card etc..) Distro - Vanilla or custom complied (specs if yes including patches, gcc version, compile options etc) Binary driver avaiable (if yes list the site) Date tested on Tested by (Contact name, email id etc) Driver/modules user end application to use the device limitations compared to windows platform and known issues tweaks if any Any other remarks Obviously, we need to host it somewhere. What do you guys think? Cheers! Santhosh Joseph __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
