From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 9 04:01:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA24409 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 04:01:17 -0800 Received: from dkuug.dk (dkuug.dk [193.88.44.89]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA24352 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 04:00:59 -0800 Received: from kmd-ac.dk by dkuug.dk with UUCP id AA04698 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for freebsd.org!hackers); Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:00:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199501091200.AA04698@dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information To: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:04:21 +0000 (GMT) From: "Soeren Schmidt" In-Reply-To: <199501072206.AA14301@dkuug.dk> from "uucp@kmd-ac.dk" at Jan 7, 95 11:06:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1477 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 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 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).... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@kmd-ac.dk) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time ..