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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