From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 30 10:58:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA29853 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:58:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) 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 KAA29844 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:58:06 -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 KAA03042; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:55:38 -0800 (PST) To: Amancio Hasty cc: The Classiest Man Alive , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:39:07 PST." <199710301739.JAA09845@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:55:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3038.878237738@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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