Re: debian

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:07:21AM +1200, cr wrote:
> > And, just so I can join in the foray of the auto-detect flame-fest here,
> > if a user doesn't know his hardware well enough to be able to pick it
> > from a list he shouldn't be installing an OS in the first place.
>
> Errr, *wrong*.  Much of my gear is second-hand, and of course the
> first thing the original owners invariably do is lose the manuals.
> :( My current motherboard is the first one I've ever had a manual
> for, ditto my S3 VGA card, and I've *never* owned any monitor of a
> brand that's been listed in the 'X' config options.

Actually, he's right.  It's 2003 and people still don't know about
Google?

> Yet, both RedHat and Mandrake's graphical installers and Debian's penguin 
> logo display fine with *whatever* card I'm running - what is it the 
> installers know that they won't tell X config ?    :(

X is not the framebuffer.

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