Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 17:57:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svgalib? (forget the newbies) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029174820.6656B-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971029143328.27399A-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
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(i hope no one takes offence at this, please badger me and show me where i can find stuff to answer this) This discussion has drifted towards the idea of making FreeBSD easier to setup, i don't agree much with this, not that it is a bad idea, however more important features need to be looked at (although /stand/sysinstall dying all the time is kinda annoying) specifically here's my gripe with FreeBSD and the XFree86 peoples, COMMENT YOUR CODE A LITTLE MORE DAMMIT :) I've been doing low level programming on a M$DOS platform for a long time and i feel my skills could be of some use to FreeBSD, but just looking through the source is sorta a nightmare. It's like watching a soap that's been on for years for the first time, you have no idea what sort of dependancies are going on and which device driver is sleeping with whom... :) it's not just tracing through the code, i know the structure allows for such great things as CVSups and other methods of updating the sourcecode, but some simple documentation explaining how to not only make code for freebsd, but something that is compadible with the structures already in place would be nice... (i'm going to hide for a few days now) -Alfred On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Kyle Mestery wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think I'm going to ask if Amancio would like to man Walnut Creek > > CDROM's tech support lines for a month or something - I think he'd > > find this experience very enlightening in the face of his "most people > > shouldn't have any problems getting into X" statement. :-) > > > > >From what I have seen, most people not only have a lot of trouble with > setting up their video card for X, but have even more trouble with their > mice, especially if it is a PS/2 mouse. Those critters seem to give lots > of headaches to new users. > > Kyle Mestery > StorageTek's Network Systems Group > 7600 Boone Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55428 > mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com > > "You do not greet Death, you punch him in the throat > repeatedly until he drags you away." --No Fear > > >
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