Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:20:23 -0800 From: "Dr. Clark Mankin" <cmankin@qwest.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: bsd 5.1 video install Message-ID: <001f01c3b640$df8f0480$0201a8c0@upyours>
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I'm very happy to have moved my entire network to BSD 5.1. The installation was a breeze. I have only one comment and that is this: in 1999 when I installed first Red Hat 5.0 and then 5.2, I was required to select my video card from a list and to find a set of specifications that matched my monitor unless its name was on the list. By the time I changed to Mandrake 6.5 a short while later, that issue had been resolved and until this installation I had never again been asked any questions of any kind about hardware devices. It seems to me that this is your weakest point. I have almost zero use for KDE. I wanted it mainly to burn CDs using their tools. I'm a command line person, so it's not any inconvenience on a day to day basis, but until I can either buy a new monitor so I have the necessary data to answer your inquiries, or until I make a lucky guess, I will not be able to configure an X server and that is truly unfortunate in the year 2003. Happy Thanksgiving one and all and a Merry Christmas is just around the corner.
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