Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:23:09 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? Message-ID: <10125.878152989@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:45:51 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029114151.17203B-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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> Personally, I think it has alot to do with whether or not the user has the > full array of documentation for all their video hardware. I found it easy > with all the books in front of me, but if you don't know the max refresh > on your monitor, or you have an unknown video card in the system, > questions about your "dot clock", etc. seem rather daunting. I have news for you - most folks don't have any CLUE as to what kind of video card is in their machine. They bought it from some box shifter, have usually never even opened it up and wouldn't know the video card from the ethernet interface even if they did. I think I'm going to ask if Amancio would like to man Walnut Creek CDROM's tech support lines for a month or something - I think he'd find this experience very enlightening in the face of his "most people shouldn't have any problems getting into X" statement. :-) Jordan
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