On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:35:31 -0500 "Jason J.W. Pock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All I want to do is use Linux. Umm, that invites two questions: a) Why? and b) What sort of work do you want to use it for? > Why must it be so difficult? Difficult compared to what? > I've > tried installing it from Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 cd's. I've tried > installing it from Debian cd's. NO LUCK! And it's always this > XFree86 stuff. I just can't figure it out. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! > Does anyone else feel this way? I don't, but I have very limited experience with Linux, I admit. I've been using FreeBSD since Feb 1995. I spent several hours with pencil, paper, and pocket calculator working on my XFree86 configuration that first time, but nevertheless the net result was *so much better* than any of the various general-purpose computer systems that I had dealt with in the previous 30 years that FreeBSD has been my strong preference ever since. These days, with PCI/AGP and I2C/DDC/EDID equipment that identifies itself, XFree86 4.2.0 virtually installs itself. Sorry if this seems a bit of a rant, but I'm responding to a bit of a rant. What I would suggest is that you remove all traces of previous installations of XFree86 and start over with 4.2.0. "sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6" and "sudo find /etc -name "X*" -delete" should do it. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
