Re: Why

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

Sounds right.. most all cards are at least VESA1.0 compliant right?  And
I'm sure it isnt hard to achieve 640x480x256 colors with a VESA 1
driver.  Something along the lines of SVGALIB maybe but svgalib isnt
supported by much.  The problem I think is companies trying to use X for
the install just because it is easier to develop.  QNX has a way of
working with the frame buffer (Same as the X11 driver for the frame buffer
maybe?) in which it enables a "flat" graphics driver almost ensuring
compaidbility with all cards.  I doubt that XFREE86 will be updated enough
fast enough anywhere in the near future to keep up with the latest and
greatest. I would really like to see a distro like corel or caldera or
suse or redhat that used AcceleratedX, and another that used laptop
acceleratedX. I know Xi graphics has a distro, although i havent used it i
have doubts it is as complete as their compeditiors in terms of
software. Price it at $199 or even $299 ..id pay for it if it had what i
wanted.

nate


On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Andy Thomas wrote:

andyth >My guess is that the windows install probably uses the same
andyth >lowest-common-denominator graphics mode (it looks like it to me) regardless
andyth >of video hardware and the Linux X-based setup is using different modes
andyth >during setup, dependent upon which video card it thinks it detects.  The
andyth >Windows-based setup doesn't go into card-specific graphic modes until
andyth >installation is done.  If this is the case then the x-based setup routines
andyth >should be written for a standard 640x480x16 mode, regardless of which video
andyth >hardware is detected during setup, no?...
andyth >
andyth >
andyth >a shot in the dark
andyth >Andy
andyth >
andyth >
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andyth >> From: Bart Szyszka <bart@gigabee.com>
andyth >> To: Evan Moore <evan@info.load-otea.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca>; Brigette Heffner
andyth ><brigette@mail.com>; Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
andyth >> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
andyth >> Subject: Re: Why
andyth >> Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:11 PM
andyth >> 
andyth >> > LinuxPPC uses the same installer Redhat uses, recently they made a X 
andyth >> > based installer but it was quite broken to begin with and fails far 
andyth >> > to often.  (X based installers will always be unreliable IMO just 
andyth >> > because of the wildly differing video hardware)
andyth >> 
andyth >> Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? 
andyth >> I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer
andyth >> on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware. 
andyth >> 
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