More specific hardware questions shouldnt be asked

[Shane Fagan]

Ive used checkbox for a few releases now and recently ive noticed difficult questions being offered to the user like:
Disk benchmark:

Timing cached reads = 747.07 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads = 50.97 MB/sec

Is this ok?

Detecting your network controller(s):

nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)
Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Is this correct?

The following screens and video modes have been detected on your system:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1366 x 768, maximum 1366 x 768
default connected 1366x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1366x768 50.0*
   1360x768 51.0
   1024x768 52.0
   960x540 53.0
   840x525 54.0
   800x600 55.0
   800x512 56.0
   720x450 57.0
   700x525 58.0
   680x384 59.0 60.0
   640x512 61.0
   640x480 62.0 63.0
   576x432 64.0
   512x384 65.0
   400x300 66.0
   320x240 67.0

Is this correct?

These questions arent "human friendly".

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Confirming this... and setting it at low for now... I think a lot of these "tests" could simply be automated and the info passed on rather than presenting the user with modelines or other info that they may not be aware of.

However, it's not trivial to make these things "human friendly"... just figuring out how to present the network controller info in a way that matches what's on the computer's shipping box could be an exercise in futility. For example, what if it simply returned Broadcom BCM4321?? there are many different cards on the market that use that chipset and it would be near impossible to say to the user:

You have the Whizzbang 54XY card

as opposed to

You have the Semtec AGN1000

which both may happen to use the same chipset.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

I'm marking this as fixed release. The later versions of checkbox have really answsered this, and there is already a branch for 13 as part of the checkbox UI rewrite that clears up all the manual test descriptions. Also, a lot of the tests like the ones referenced here have been cleared up too.