On Sat, 8 May 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> >
> >> pretty easy: every recent graphic card is pci or agp, so it's detected
> as
> >> pci device and listed in the /proc file...
> >
> >>From what I understand, t
*- On 8 May, Brandon Mitchell wrote about "Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal "
> On Sat, 8 May 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
>> Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>> >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>> >
>> >> pretty easy: every recent
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Re: boot floppies and QT2. I guess there is no way around except to
> try to ask the boot floppies authors to include an exception clause. If they
> do not want to do this, it will have to be gtk or the framebuffer gui (I
> know nothing about this
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:32:05PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> Many modern monitors are 'plug-n-play'. I don't know how it all works
> but they are able to tell the video card/drivers what frequencies they
> support, etc. 'Plug-n-play' could be tried first, then either ask or
> guess conservativ
At 21:17 -0400 1999-05-07, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:27:25PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
At 13:58 -0700 1999-05-07, Chris Waters wrote:
>#ifndef DEFAULT_CONFIG_X_SERVER
># ifdef __i386__
># define DEFAULT_CONFIG_X_SERVER "XF86_VGA16"
># else
># define DEFAULT_CONFIG_X_SERV
On May 07, Joel Klecker wrote:
> Let me just add that I am aware that the folks who work on the Red
> Hat-derived powerpc Linux dist have xconfigurator sorta working with
> XF68_FBDev.
Jes Sorensen, who did an unofficial Red Hat port for Linux/m68k,
reports a working Xconfigurator with the FBDev
> That's all fine, but did we ever find out if someone were crazy enough to
> pay for the PnP monitor specs (wasn't it $300 or so?) that an
> implementation could be done and properly documented source released?
> Reverse engineering this just does not sound like fun.
From my limited understandin
> Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> >
> >> > I think this is a very difficult point, how do you plan to solve this,
> c
> >hoose
> >> > the right Xserver and XF86Config file for the users system ? Or do you
> p
> >lan
> >> > to use
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 07:57:58PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:32:05PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> > Many modern monitors are 'plug-n-play'. I don't know how it all works
> > but they are able to tell the video card/drivers what frequencies they
> > support, etc. 'Pl
Randolph Chung wrote:
>The VESA PnD (plug and display) specs can be downloaded from the VESA web
>site (http://www.vesa.org/pnd.pdf). A cursory flip through the specs seem to
>indicate that it will indeed provide video timing (as well as other
>interesting pieces of) information about your display
> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I think this is a very difficult point, how do you plan to
>> solve this, choose the right Xserver and XF86Config file for
>> the users system ? Or do you plan to use the fbdev server ? i
>> think not yet all gra
> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> Save yourself some pain and use slang for the console
Joseph> based installation.
What makes `slang' a better choice than `ncurses'?
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:59:24AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Joseph> Save yourself some pain and use slang for the console
> Joseph> based installation.
>
> What makes `slang' a better choice than `ncurses'?
Besides
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I for one like what I see so far. I want to encourage Corel to
> improve Debian setup. I hope that you can either commit directly to
> the debian boot-floppies or at least start a world-readable cvs tree
> of your own. That way everyone will be able to lo
> "Dave" == Dave Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> Hi Everyone, There does not seem to be any objections to the
Dave> initial proposal of doing a setup API and perhaps rethinking
Dave> how we do an install. Would it be possible to come to a
Dave> consensus on this and dec
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