It just seems there should reasonably be something like this considering so many folks run *nix on laptops and laptops have such consistent hardware sets. At a guess I'd imagine there's likely in the ~1000-2000 range of hardware combinations making up ~85% of laptops in current use (this is completely random guess off the top of my head).That said, does anyone know of any sites where people share their precompiled kernels or .configs? I used to meddle them up myself; but that was ~10 years ago and I don't frankly want the headache of getting my hardware working myself. Would be awesome if I could just go to a website, start selecting hardware my machine has and it filters down to other peoples shared .config files, or I could just put in my laptop's model number and it finds someone elses posted .config who had the same.On a side note, yes the common default kernels distros come with seem to work fine on my laptop, but I'm struggling to get the ATI drivers working correctly (I understand I need to remove DRI/KMS and stand on my head while doing some other things; so far I've managed to boot to a black screen in my latest kernel recompile attempt) but it seems somebody else has probably wrestled this into submission on their machine, and their should be a site they can share it in a more concrete form than tutorial.
Is there any sort of online kernel repository or sharing sites (possibly for laptops)
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