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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:38:05 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net>
Cc:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do you have some neat configuration files?
Message-ID:  <19970912103805.11305@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970911111410.22949A-100000@adam.adonai.net>; from Lee Crites (AEI) on Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 11:23:11AM -0500
References:  <199709110645.AAA25036@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970911111410.22949A-100000@adam.adonai.net>

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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 11:23:11AM -0500, Lee Crites (AEI) wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> =>XFree86 is particularly bad about this, but getting better.  Requiring
> =>people to learn what kind of graphics card they have before downloading
> =>just won't work; you need to provide some reasonable minimum system and
>
> This is exactly why I *don't* have X running on my server.  It
> started asking me questions which I had no clue about.  I'm
> sitting there, with the hardware documentation in hand, mind you,
> and could not answer a bunch of the questions.  Questions which I
> had never been asked about before or since. So when I
> reinstalled, X was not a part of it.

Have you ever tried to install a custom board on a Microsoft machine?
I failed, anyway.  As for installing X, grab
ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/08-xsetup.ps.gz and tell me what's wrong
with that.

> =>then let them "upgrade" or "enhance" it.  A generic SVGA server at
> =>1024x768x8bpp would probably fit this requirement nicely these days.
>
> Perhaps even a couple of options to select from.  I'd love the
> 1024x768 resolution, but some of my users cannot handle the small
> icons and such.

Well, it's a good thing you're not aiming for a hi-res screen, then :-)

Greg



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