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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.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
>