Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:55:38 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? Message-ID: <3038.878237738@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:39:07 PST." <199710301739.JAA09845@rah.star-gate.com>
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> For now what we need is a list of problems that people are having > when trying to setup X so we can stand a chance at addressing the issue. It's really pretty simply, and culling this from my own experience on the tech support lines, I can tell you that they fall into the following categories: 1. I have no idea what kind of VGA card I have, how do I tell? 2. How do I know how much video memory is on the card? Which chips should I be counting, or whatever? 3. OK, I've figured out which card I have, which clock settings and such should I use for it? I don't know what a "RAMDAC" is, either. 4. I have a mouse on COM2 - what's that in FreeBSD terminology? 5. OK, I went through all of XF86Setup / xf86config and it still doesn't come up - now what do I do? 6. It comes up, but the screen's all messed up - now what do I do? 7. It comes up but the screen is interlaced and/or the resolution is poor - how do I change it on the fly until reaching something more satisfactory? What people want is essentially this: >Do you want to install the X Window System (Y/n)? Y >Standard or Minimal configuration (S/M)? S Detecting your video card type... Done. Detecting your mouse type... Done. [X comes up in 640x480x16 mode, along with a control panel. The user is now allowed to move a little slider thing which denotes resolution and/or depth and the usual "Test / Save / Quit" buttons do the same thing you see the Win95 VGA card setup utility do]. That's what they want. :) The question only still remains as to who's going to do all of this. Jordan
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