Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:04:21 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" <sos@kmd-ac.dk> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information Message-ID: <199501091200.AA04698@dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199501072206.AA14301@dkuug.dk> from "uucp@kmd-ac.dk" at Jan 7, 95 11:06:50 pm
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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!
>
> Jordan
It wouldn't run on small machines either, which I guess is a rather
large portion of new users (they try it out on the old'n'rusty 386
machine in the corner ala 25MHz 4MB 80MB)....
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@kmd-ac.dk) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time
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