Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> >
> > > Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> > >
> > > > If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
> > > > annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
> >
> > I don't know if I agree witha bug report against X...as the keyword there is
> > "misconfigured"...although you could
> > look at that as a bug in xdm but...
> > there is a such thing as misconfigured...reminds me of when I was
> > a tottal linux newbie I was running with RedHat in runlevel 5 (init starts XDM
> > on startup)
> > and I recompiled my kernel for the first time...forgot to compile in
> > a mouse driver.... xdm didn't like that at all...
> > needed to use a kernel boot parameter tofix it
>
> Yes, that's exactly my point. If you have accidentally or ignorantly
> misconfigured X (or haven't configured it at all, for that matter) and
> start xdm, your computer becomes inaccessible without either remote access
> or a reboot with some not-guessable kernel parameters. This is VERY
> confusing for newbies, who will really fast think something like "well,
> this whole Linux thing obviously doesn't work for me, so I'll just turn it
> off and return to Windows". Now, that is one thing we don't want, do we?
>
Hear Hear..!!
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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