From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 12:39:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA12269 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:39:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA12253 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:38:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA16071; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:34:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma015988; Wed, 29 Oct 97 14:34:36 -0600 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA27417; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:34:35 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:34:35 -0600 (CST) From: Kyle Mestery To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: spork , Amancio Hasty , "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? In-Reply-To: <10125.878152989@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I think I'm going to ask if Amancio would like to man Walnut Creek > CDROM's tech support lines for a month or something - I think he'd > find this experience very enlightening in the face of his "most people > shouldn't have any problems getting into X" statement. :-) > >From what I have seen, most people not only have a lot of trouble with setting up their video card for X, but have even more trouble with their mice, especially if it is a PS/2 mouse. Those critters seem to give lots of headaches to new users. Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group 7600 Boone Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55428 mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com "You do not greet Death, you punch him in the throat repeatedly until he drags you away." --No Fear