From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 7 03:40:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA20884 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:40:04 -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 DAA20876 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:40:03 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA04290; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:38:46 -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 22:25:57 +1100." <199501071125.AA01368@physics.su.OZ.AU> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 03:38:46 -0800 Message-ID: <4281.789478726@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I did say "VGA compatible". The generic driver in those Xservers > shouldn't assume anything other than "standard VGA" (which I guess > means register compatible with IBM's original VGA). I think the only > problems I've heard of are with some P9000 based cards (probably using > Weitek's W5x86 SVGA chip), but I'll see if I can follow that up. Well, if I haven't perhaps made my enthusiasm for this clear, just let me now say that I would LOVE to be able to leverage off the X server! I've wanted this for years! Boy, what you couldn't whip up in tk...! It makes me all giggly just thinking about it. Ok, so it doesn't. I lied. But will it *work*, that is the question. The burning issue. Can't have an install that 10% of your population can't run. Wouldn't be very cricket, that. So unless somebody can point me at a Tk API compatible library that uses curses instead of X (so you could have `install' and `xinstall'), I don't see us even trying to use X based installers unless there was a pretty high success rate! Jordan