Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 03:38:46 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> Cc: cg@FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information Message-ID: <4281.789478726@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 22:25:57 %2B1100." <199501071125.AA01368@physics.su.OZ.AU>
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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
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