From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 12:04:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA09613 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:04:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA09608 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA10605; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:03:25 -0800 (PST) To: Amancio Hasty cc: spork , "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:50:09 PST." <199710291950.LAA02594@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:03:25 -0800 Message-ID: <10601.878155405@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The problem can still be contained by way of knowing the PCI ID of the > graphic card so at the very least XF86setup can limit the query to > a few cards if not just one. The monitor setup is a little easier to > manage by having a database of popular models and modes for the > VESA monitors. ... and I'm sure that the XFree86 folks would just love your help in doing that in a fashion which works on a reasonable number of the operating systems they support. :-) Otherwise, the chances of this actually happening are close to nil, I suspect. We've been waiting for a more automatic setup tool for X for literally years now, and if any improvements have been done it's been primarily to make the manual setup process a bit more palatable, not more automatic. Everyone agrees that it should be done, nobody writes the code. :-( Jordan