From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 26 15:56:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13235 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13192 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25462; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Brett Taylor cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desktop OS In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 16:47:50 MDT." Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:56:48 -0700 Message-ID: <25458.896223408@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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