> there's a learning curve, and it's a bit of a climb at first. I would have said "a snowball in hell", but ok... ;)
> I've noticed that when people have crashing or 'going bezerk' problems > with Linux it's almost always hardware related. true > Either they went out > and bought something so new that it isn't really supported yet, yep. could write songs about this. > PC > hardware is designed for Windows. ...and MacOS, in certain cases - ATI cards for example work fine on Macs, and since MacOS X is based on FreeBSD kernel, I wonder why ATI cards give me so much trouble in Linux. > Linux is at best an afterthought > for the manufacturer, at worst an annoyance to be ignored or > supressed. This is particularly true for video cards; I'm amazed that > so many recent cards >do< work decently with XFree86. > So I wonder why they do not go ahead saying ok, we'll code drivers for Linux/XFree as well and go out and say hey, we've a really fast card and it works in Linux!" 2 or 3 years ago this was not interesting enough for the big manufacturers due to the spread of Linux, but now? NVidia provides their own drivers, tho closed source, but nevertheless. And they seem to work on recent cards. > My guess from the original poster's comments is that he has both a > hardware issue and a failure to RTFM. Hard to say more without seeing > the error messages. There's a lot of FM to read, and the F is ok here, reading man pages is not really a very pleasant thing. The howtos are not newbie friendly, too. In fact, everything I leraned about DOS/Win boxes I usually learned from friends (and what for? making Quake run faster ;), so the LUGs will take this place. But it takes really, really long. DF _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
