want to support HCL week, advice needed

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#1

Hi,

I saw the big banner above, to support the HCL week and wanted to add my hardware. I have a Sony Vaio, which may be interesting to some folks as it is not so old, but also not the most recent model I guess (it is getting cheaper…)

So I looked into the Laptop → Sony section in the wiki and saw that the model VPC… something has no categorie there yet.

Can I add it myself to the table? Or should it do someone who knows what he/she is doing? If this is the case, who is the one who needs to be asked, and how?

would be cool, if someone had advice…

thanks!
Steffen

#2

Do you think you can add it?
Do you understand the wiki editor?

If you want to PM me the details, I can do it. I suggest you run ‘smolt’, then login with the password they give you and edit the details as best you can. Link us to it.

#3

I would understand it if I had to :smiley: it would take a while but I guess I would make it. But as I don´t need to :wink: I will send the details to you then. Thanks!

#4

Received your PM. I will add the details in to HCL today

#5

Well done for taking the time to submit your hardware info Steffen. It doesn’t matter how old your hardware is, just as long as it gets entered into the HCL. I hope others are inspired to do the same. We’ll help if required. :slight_smile:

#6

Ok folks I will have a bash.
On the wiki page (Smolt - openSUSE) it simply tells us to:

  1. run Smolt and create profile,

But does not give any clue as to how. In a terminal

~>Smolt

gives no results, nor “Sm” with a two taps on the tab key. If I were busier, I might have given up right there!
So;

 ~> smolt

Also gives nothing (CNF smolt)
sm and tab tab gives a load of commands. I choose smoltGui (why the F does it have an upper case G??, a deliberate attempt to annoy and make difficult?
I guess I am now where I should be…
but in terminal I have this:

linux-p9sz:~ # smoltGui 
TypeError: expected 1 arguments, got 0
TypeError: expected 1 arguments, got 0
TypeError: expected 1 arguments, got 0
TypeError: expected 1 arguments, got 0
TypeError: expected 1 arguments, got 0

…lots of this.

Is this a prob?

#7

Ok, I tried. It is little wonder that the HCL does not get populated when it is this bad. My honest advice would be to delete the whole pile and start again, with a form based tree-layout, user can then go, for instance Mainboard >mfr>model>works>Y/N if no how so?
Here is my smolt:
Show Box

Here is output of hwinfo, if anyone can use it to help…

============ start debug info ============ libhd version 18.3u (x86-64) using - Pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com/uniutbWC)