From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 7 03:51:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA28047 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:51:45 -0800 Received: from physics.su.OZ.AU (dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU [129.78.129.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA28000 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:51:43 -0800 Received: by physics.su.OZ.AU id AA01583 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for hackers@freebsd.org); Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:51:31 +1100 From: David Dawes Message-Id: <199501071151.AA01583@physics.su.OZ.AU> Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:51:30 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4281.789478726@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 7, 95 03:38:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1208 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! I agree. The success rate has to be very high if there is no text-mode alternative. Perhaps we need to get an idea of what the success rate might be. David