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Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal



On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 05:16:57PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 11:54:55AM -0400, Dave Neil wrote:

> > 
> > 5. linuxrc  then mounts the cdrom on /instmnt and loads the  correct
> > mouse driver and
> >      corresponding  XF86Config file.
> 
> 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 graphic cards have video servers ...
> 
> Sure XFree 4.0 will make live easier for you there, but it is still not there.
> 

there are patches for recent 2.2 kernels to include VGA_16 framebuffer.
this would be probably the best way, if it gets into official kernel

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