From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 22:15:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zipcon.net (zipcon.net [209.221.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A307237B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29016 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2002 06:16:10 -0000 Received: from fluff.zipcon.net (HELO there) (209.221.137.9) by zipcon.net with SMTP; 6 Mar 2002 06:16:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Herman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm kinda happy (wasI bought your system and am not so happy!) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:13:13 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <15492.31410.219242.379055@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15492.31410.219242.379055@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020306061548.A307237B400@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 04 March 2002 11:58 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > David Herman types: -----------------snip----------------------------- > > 1) xfree86 still has a way to go as far as being easy to set up. > > I kept thinking this was the source of my failures. > > FYI, xfree86 is not part of FreeBSD. I guess I wasn't clear as you are at least the second person to supply that clarification. What I was trying to indicate was exactly what you stated (I didn't mean to blame freeBSD). It is not a fault of freeBSD that I had a hard time choosing which driver would work w/ my ati card (why so many cards w/ the exact same name and diferent chipsets!) It was a limitation of the current state of xfree86 development. (Although many linux distros have supposedly made great strides in automatically recognizing hardware). > ----------------snip------------------------------ > > > Anyway all is well, I look forward to a more "Desktop" related > > distribution but by the time it arrives I hope I won't need it. > > That's actually a sticky subject. The install process *has* to be able > to run over a serial line. By desktop related I was suggesting something which would help a new user set up basic system functions, ie the ---Option--- to use scripts to help select and configure supported video,sound and network cards etc. I know, read the handbook... but it sure would be nice to have some basic functions set up when the install is done. For example - I'm still searching the documentation for information which will help me to get my internal ISA modem (hardware based "NOT" win modem) working. So far the best I've found is "recompile your kernel". I find it hard to believe that I need to recompile my kernel as the first thing I do after installing the OS. dh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message