Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:15:31 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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: <199710300315.TAA04476@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:23:09 PST." <10125.878152989@time.cdrom.com>
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Try to compile a list of what customers are complaining about setting up X which I then will take it up with the XFree868 group. As for XF86Setup , we should be able to have a FreeBSD version for the purpose of ease of configuration. Amancio > > Personally, I think it has alot to do with whether or not the user has the > > full array of documentation for all their video hardware. I found it easy > > with all the books in front of me, but if you don't know the max refresh > > on your monitor, or you have an unknown video card in the system, > > questions about your "dot clock", etc. seem rather daunting. > > I have news for you - most folks don't have any CLUE as to what kind > of video card is in their machine. They bought it from some box > shifter, have usually never even opened it up and wouldn't know the > video card from the ethernet interface even if they did. > > 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. :-) > > Jordan >
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