Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:12:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au (Doug Young) Cc: djohnson@acuson.com (David Johnson), kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway), freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm leaving Message-ID: <200105151812.LAA28441@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <020b01c0dcda$581e35d0$0300a8c0@oracle> from "Doug Young" at May 15, 2001 10:59:49 AM
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> From my extremely limited (and somewhat unsatisfactory) experience > in> attempting to coerce X into a functional state, I see the problem > as more of a hardware rather than a software issue. Whilst there > isn't any question that making things more straightforward software > wise is a_very_good_thing, there does appear to be something > lacking in the videocard detection routing. Its been suggested by > some that this is is more of an XFree rather than a FreeBSD issue, > and although I can see the logic in this argument I'm certain that > many raw newbies would fail to understand the distinction. This is a FreeBSD issue. If FreeBSD were to go to GGI and KGI (most of the drivers and all of the interesting code is under the X license), then video modes for all supported cards, and INT 10 BIOS modes up through VESA2 would "just work". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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