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FS#6276 - Laptop hardware profile management
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Opened by Yuri Chernyavsky (yurac) - Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:01 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 10:49 GMT
Opened by Yuri Chernyavsky (yurac) - Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:01 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 10:49 GMT
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DetailsHi,
I have a laptop and I use it at three different places with different hardware configuration. For me the option of selecting a network profile is not enough. For example, I need to load different modules during the boot process. What I do, and I think it can be useful for other laptop users is the following: I modified /etc/rc.sysinit so that at the beginning it shows a menu for choosing a profile. Assume that a profile 'home' is chosen. Then it symlinks /etc/rc.conf->/etc/rc.conf.home. Then different hardware profiles can be used by creating a rc.conf.profile file for each profile. The problem is that I have to modify rc.sysinit each time I upgrade initscripts. Maybe it can be a good idea to add the support for such feature in rc.sysinit or some other place? Before using Arch, I used gentoo, and there was a package hprofile there that handled this issue. however, it was a bit awkward. |
This task depends upon
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=initscripts.git