Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:03:25 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? Message-ID: <10601.878155405@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:50:09 PST." <199710291950.LAA02594@rah.star-gate.com>
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> 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
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