Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 02:19:58 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> Cc: cg@FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information Message-ID: <25754.789473998@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 15:12:04 %2B1100." <199501070412.AA27896@physics.su.OZ.AU>
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> It should be possible to get the 16-colour or mono server (our 16 > colour server is quite slow so the mono server is probably a better > option) running on any VGA-compatible card at the standard 640x480 VGA > resolution using the provided sample XF86Config file. The only bit that > needs configuring to do this is the mouse protocol/device setting. That's > the mode MS Windows will run in until you install a card-specific driver. > To do anything much more adventurous is in my opinion doomed to failure. Actually, if you did the interface right, you wouldn't even need a mouse! Just grab the server by the throat and demand all keystrokes. Do your own keystroke-based windows navigation even. Write a window manager-cum-GUI interface. But are you *really* sure you could get that VGA screen up there 99 times out of 100? Let's say, as reliably as SCO's seems to come up in VGA mode on totally weird and whacked out hardware? I don't like SCO, but it definitely runs on a lotta shit! [and I suppose you could read that last sentence in various ways :-)] Jordan
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