Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:56:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desktop OS Message-ID: <25458.896223408@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 16:47:50 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526164542.11772A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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> Do any of the Linuces have something like this where they can autodetect > this sort of stuff? Maybe we could steal, I mean borrow, from theirs. > :-) The TurboLinux folks evidently have something that will run SuperProbe through a pipe and sort of intuit what card the user must have from the output, but there's that slight niggling problem with SuperProbe also crashing a fair number of systems (hard) when run, so I'm not sure that's a good solution. A truly good solution has pretty much defied everyone who's tackled it so far or it would have been done already, and in the meantime we continue to field "how do I setup X?" as our #1 tech support question at Walnut Creek CDROM. :-( For the record, we've also offered the XFree86 Project not-unsubstantial sums of money to work on this one, but their problem is much the same as ours - more money than truly skilled people available to spend it on. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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