Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 19:03:36 +0100 From: "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" <cg@uhura> To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au>, jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information Message-ID: <199501071803.TAA00137@uhura> In-Reply-To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> "Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information" (Jan 7, 10:51pm)
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> >> 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. Maybe we build a database where we include information about VGA cards, clock rates etc. for a 640x480 screen which work. We can then ask users at startup (like Micro$oft's Windows Setup does) of the installation process what card he uses and if it's in the database, we can use the entry, because we know that this configuration works? I don't think that monitors have problem with displaying 640x480? So the success rate *should be* pretty high - or do I miss something? Christian. cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at
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