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[cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Mario Schwalbe wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> in the forum we often tell the users to add several options to /etc/ 
> modprobe.d/*
> and modules to /etc/modules. what about doing this setup  
> automatically?
> i recently wrote a script to do so. what do you think about  
> installing this script
> by a package and calling it in the package's post-install script?
Really, it would be best if the changes were made to Ubuntu so that  
these were added without user intervention. This appears to have  
happened with the applesmc module... The script is fine, but we need  
to make sure there are bug reports about them to try and get it  
corrected in the future.

> ...snip...
>
> by the way: since it is quite confusing to install the necessary  
> packages from the
> PPA - not all machines need all packages on all releases - what  
> about adding meta-packages,
> e.g., mactel-support-macbookpro4 that installs the other packages  
> through its dependency?

We used to have some metapackages like that in there. I would post the  
script in the forum for people to test and get some feedback of course.

Also, we need to see what we can update in the PPA for Jaunty (or what  
even needs to be updated). For instance, the hid-dkms package which  
makes the expose keys work, really just needs a couple of line edits  
to make it compatible with jaunty (I think).
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