Re: I've tested the PGI installer

[Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu>]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:49:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> was heard to say:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:57:15AM +0200, Nick Name wrote:
> > One grave bug: it hangs on DDC detection for me (nvidia geforce2 with,
> > obviously, "nv" driver, LG915FT). It really hangs with no hope else than
> > CTRL+ALT+F2 and killall read-edid.
> 
> It's not grave.  Video cards falling over dead when they receive DDC
> probes is the hardware manufacturer's fault.

  True, but OTOH, running on broken hardware (especially broken *and common*
hardware) is, sadly, the job of software.  Particularly the installer.

  I don't know whether or not you can do anything here, though :(

  Daniel

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