I already added all hardware in my possesion and while doing so I noticed a couple of things and felt a remark should be made.
- There is a link to suselinuxhcl.org which by the looks of it isn't being used much... but I like the idea if it could be incorporated into the current username/password system and find a place on openSUSE itself.
At the moment I mainly don't like it and don't use it, because it's not in Novells 'care' (and thus unreliable as with what is done with the data), full of adds and not green enough.
There is a link on the right offering the script for sale... so don't know how much influence you have as a "Moderator" but I thought this would be as good a time as any to discuss it.
(I'm up for devoting some time to writing (or assisting in writing) something similar myself if it's done in PHP)
- Some sections have become unwieldy HCL/Monitors - openSUSE is one big clump of LCD monitors which is hard to edit.. I'd split it up myself if I could figure out how to make templates as is done for the laptops (see laptops )
- There is no unity between the sections what so ever, some use tables, some don't. Some pages actually show which version is causing problems with the hardware.. others don't (There is just a bunch of versionnumbers next to eachother not informing you to which version the the special steps are required(if any)..
- The ===heading=== markup doesn't work when surrounded by table tags? (Though I'm fairly certain it can be worked around with by use of regular <h#> tags
Guess my biggest problem with it overall is that isn't userfriendly enough doing it via the wiki and it allows for too many differences between sections.
So in my perfect little world it should be replaced by software that has a list of all possible hardware (or a lot of it anyways) and users can just simply search for their hardware. If the hardware is present in the database but didn't have any information filled in about actually working or not and the user is willing to do so it should be as simple as marking the checkboxes with the suse versions it works on. Filling in (or not filling in) a "remark" field that may contain instructions on how to get it working.. should be as easy to use as this forum for markup.
Okay I'm done with my rant
Now as for a request, if your wiki skills are superior to mine could you add a template table header for
ATI video cards similiar to {LaptopTable} found at
HCL/Laptops/Other - openSUSE ? (The laptops section is the only one in which I think a wiki might work for this purpose.. but the page gets ridiculously long)