-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/2012 03:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > I still remember when configuring X included selecting by hand the proper driver for your card, and how badly things would fsck themselves up if you had the wrong one. At the time, I was using a Virge S3 card, which needed its own driver, as well I knew. Then, an upgrade for X came out, and the README said that you didn't need the special driver for my card. *WRONG!* After reconfiguring with the proper driver, I sent a nice little email to the maintainer, letting him know about the error. > > What I got back was an arrogant snotty-gram telling me that he's the one who wrote the driver and he knows that it works with my card. I replied, telling him that he may have written the driver, but I'm the one trying to use it and No It Doesn't. He shut up and stopped arguing. > > The point of this, if there is one, is that things are much better now than they were back in the Second Millennium, and nobody in their right mind would want to go back. Doing it by hand, including compiling and installing your own kernel to learn how it's done is one thing. Having to do it because there's no other choice is another. (And no, this doesn't include gentoo because they've automated the process so that you don't have to do it all yourself.) Remember when you could smoke a monitor with the wrong settings in your X configuration? Not a problem with most (all?) current monitors. They just give a message that the signal is out of range. But with the old analog-only monitors you could really damage hardware with software settings! Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAhlaIACgkQqbQrVW3JyMS89wCdFjqI6dQ2h/6igrO0p39jQN2+ Nb0An0qkQBl2J6cBpvvIvZxjCGpj+qVG =C91w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
