Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 22:25:57 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dawes@physics.su.oz.au, cg@FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information Message-ID: <199501071125.AA01368@physics.su.OZ.AU> In-Reply-To: <25754.789473998@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 7, 95 02:19:58 am
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>> It should be possible to get the 16-colour or mono server (our 16 >> colour server is quite slow so the mono server is probably a better >> option) running on any VGA-compatible card at the standard 640x480 VGA >> resolution using the provided sample XF86Config file. The only bit that >> needs configuring to do this is the mouse protocol/device setting. That's >> the mode MS Windows will run in until you install a card-specific driver. >> To do anything much more adventurous is in my opinion doomed to failure. > >Actually, if you did the interface right, you wouldn't even need a >mouse! Just grab the server by the throat and demand all keystrokes. >Do your own keystroke-based windows navigation even. Write a window >manager-cum-GUI interface. But are you *really* sure you could get >that VGA screen up there 99 times out of 100? Let's say, as reliably >as SCO's seems to come up in VGA mode on totally weird and whacked out >hardware? I don't like SCO, but it definitely runs on a lotta shit! > >[and I suppose you could read that last sentence in various ways :-)] :-) I think the SCO server can use the BIOS to initialise video modes, so that would improve its success rate. It'd be nice if we could do the same. 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. David
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