[openbeos] Re: SV: Re: Automatic hardware installation / system updates
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:08:54 GMT
http://glasselevator.sourceforge.net/ is the project homepage.
btw, I like your idea too; base everything on pci ids.
It could also be useful for a beos compatibility database - you could
have a small client app that looks up all of the pci ids of your
hardware and asks you for a rating on how well it works and some
comments. That would really help to get the hardware matrix on
bedrivers.com up to date.
There's still new users discovering beos so it would still be a useful
feature - the recent downloads list on bebits has always been around
the 1000 downloads every 4 days from the R5 PE page for the last 4
years or so.
Thinking about hardware support - it would be nice to have a list of
drivers that are in the haiku repository somewhere. That way any
current BeOS users looking to upgrade could make sure there purchases
would work with Haiku as well as R5.
> Thanks for the response from both you and Michael.
>
> I won't bother people in here anymore, if this topic is better suited
> in
> another mailing list.. GE?
>
> I recall some "Glass Elevation" list or something... where do I join
> up?
>
> Regards, Linus
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> > This really belongs on the GE list. :-)
> >
> because I'm only on this list, I'll respond here ;)
>
> > > THE IDEA..
> > >
> > > - I would love.. that whenever I lack drivers on my local
> > > computer.. and
> I
> > > got an internet connection.. it could just look there for
> > > drivers, and
> > > ask me
> > > to select/download/install potentially working drivers (selecting
> > > from
> > > user
> > > reported success ofcourse) .. as fully automatic BUT user
> > > configureable/selectable (if wanted) as possible.
> >
> > This is possible, assuming that some site wants to maintain this.
> > It would
> > basically be a simple web service. In Python, I think that this
> > would be
> > pretty
> > simple. With the lack of web service libraries in BeOS, I think
> > that it
> > would
> > be a little tougher.
> >
> I uttered a similar idea one or two years ago to Scott Mc of
> BeDrivers.com,
> he then said they were thinking of implementing this idea for
> BeDrivers. We
> discuss it further, probably because of lack of time, but if you're
> going to
>
> pursue this idea, I suggest you contact the guys of BeDrivers!
>
> I think we really need something like this: right now, I can't
> suggest
> trying
> BeOS to regular users because of all the patches, drivers and other
> geeky
> things you have to do to get R5 running properly...automatic driver
> lookup
> would improve BeOS/Haiku a lot for plain users!
>
> > > 2. I can create the server counterpart for this system, since I
> > > handle
> > > client-server and database stuff everyday at work... does anyone
> > > want to
>
> > > help
> > > out to create the client application(s)?
> >
> > The client should be pretty easy, for what can be done... AFAIK,
> > there is
> no
> > way to find out what driver is using what device and what device is
> > using
> > what
> > driver. You could *assume* that the driver in the server side DB
> > should at
> > least be offered, but there is no way to report the data back at
> > this
> time,
> > again, AFAIK.
> >
> What about appending attributes to each driver, for example PCI and
> Vendor
> ID...that could at least solve this problem...right?
>
> regards,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
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