x11-plugins/wmpower ebuild has a spelling error in the 'Description: ' field Currently reads: ...Also has special support for Toshiba, Dell and Compal hardware. Should say: ...Also has special support for Toshiba, Dell and Compaq hardware. i.e. Compal ---> Compaq Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -sv wmpower
Compal is correct... from README.compal in wmpower tarball: 1 - What is a Compal laptop? ---------------------------- Is a laptop made or designed by the Compal ODM (Original Design Manufacturer). Compal (http://www.compal.com/) is a company in Taiwan that makes laptops (as well as PDAs, mobile phones and TFT monitors), and offers them to another makers for rebranding. This is a more usual process than one can possibly imagine. So there it goes for "brand fidelity"... In fact, a real proof of the whole Universe being a practical joke, Acer used to be ODM for other well-known brands. Nowadays, the demand for Acer is so high, that they themselves have turned to ODMs like Compal and Quanta. My Acer Aspire 1403XC is made by Compal (that they sell it as model CR10, and the board is labelled as BR20). It's the same as the FlexNote CR10, the Beep Chrome and very similar to some models of the Toshiba Satellite 1900 and 2430 series, and of course, the HP Omnibook XE3 GF. Compal models are rebranded by Acer, Toshiba, HP, Dell and some others. And here is where the excellent omnibook kernel module comes into scene. The people at http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ have come with a wonderful module that interfaces with several special features of the HP Omnibook XE3 GF and related models. As a matter of fact, and due to their Compal origin, several contributed code has made it possible for similar architectures to be properly interfaced and available in /proc/omnibook (side note: since the 1970s, rebranding ODM producs has been a common process, and I took first contact with it while comparing the schematic diagrams for CB transceivers in the early 1980s: I could classify any given model in one of 4 or 5 makers, namely Cybernet (now merged into Kyocera and working on WiFi networks), Uniden (still on the radio market), Maxon (still on radio and now on mobile phone markets) and 1 or 2 unidentified makers. I was fond of Cybernet SSB designs, despite of them being generally messier than the Uniden ones. Nowadays, Uniden still produces for the President brand and others a chassis that is some 25 years old in its foundations, with little incremental changes over time. If you didn't want to know this, you'd better had not taken the red pill :)
