From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) Subject: Re: Do you want to see linux replace MSW? Date: 14 Jun 1993 00:17:23 +0300
In article <C8Ipsv.Ar6@cyberspace.org> jeffk@cyberspace.org (Jeff Kopmanis) writes:
>
>Following up on the X-windows configuration discussion...
>
>In my opinion, the big problem with X is just getting the video driver
>working for your particular monitor and card. Has anyone done up a
>database of Xconfig parameters for various cards and manufacturers? There
>are quite a few cards that aren't covered by the examples in the Xconfig
>file that should be in there. The sc spreadsheets help, but don't solve
>the problem entirely. If a database could be compiled of all known
>configurations that work, we might be able to reduce the frustration level
>of installing Xfree86. And alot of users might keep the hair they have.
>
>Something like the LSM, but for Xconfig parameters.
This *does* exist. The monitor is actually much more important than
the card..
But aside that: still, when you get X up, it's not really a dream
environment as it stands.. a lot of frobbing environment files
is needed for that. This is the harder part for newbies.. you can tell
them how to set up X for their monitor, but you can't tell them
how they want their environment. And as long as good defaults that
allow you to do stuff easily are missing, there's no way
Joe B. Luser is going to go through the trouble of configuring the X server.
(You have to be able to show what's *better* in X to get them do that).
TJL