On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MAH" == Mike A Harris <mharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > MAH> In the land of the GUI, I subscribe to Havoc's mission on > MAH> simplicity in UIs, .... > MAH> All modern hardware detects video ram properly. > > I wasn't aware that a TNT2 was a ten year old card. Actually you have seen here a vivid example of this "Havoc's principle" in action which cleary is "Screw a significant percentage of users in a hope that the remainder would not mind". Somebody decided to add this videoram setting to config files unconditionally. Personally it did not affect me in a major way (it was a minor PITA on occasions but not a show stopper) but some people wasted significant time and effort trying to find what the problem is. A few persistent ones, hanging on that list, found a solution. A vast majority of those hit undobtely said: "Forget it. This thing is broken and lets find something else." and in a sense they were right. An old principle says "Things should be as simple as possible but NOT simpler". Michal _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
