From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 7 02:20:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA18933 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:20:49 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA18927 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:20:46 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA25755; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:19:59 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: David Dawes cc: cg@FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 15:12:04 +1100." <199501070412.AA27896@physics.su.OZ.AU> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 02:19:58 -0800 Message-ID: <25754.789473998@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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