Le Mercredi 22 Octobre 2003 00:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
> > Le Mardi 21 Octobre 2003 20:42, Buchan Milne a �crit :
> >> A long time ago, X used to fall back to running a configuration tool.
> >> This may have been long ago, when XFdrake wstill had a link for
> >> XF86configure (or whatever Redhat used to call their tool).
> >>
> >> Why, if a user makes a mistake, do they end up with a console login,
> >> when they could have XFdrake instead to help them fix the problem?
> >>
> >> See the comments in the OSNews review to see why I am asking this
> >> again.
> >>
> >> Windows95 even had a safe mode which would help you reoconfigure your
> >> display settings. 8 years later, and Mandrake doesn't.
> >
> > I know it's not the right place but:
> > I can't find how to run windows in console mode
>
> Recovery console in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. But, there are very few
> times you actually need it, because you can ...
>
> > or even failsafe.
>
> Hit F5 or F8 during boot (since Windows 98, maybe even Windows 95). On all
> versions of Windows since then, that will bring you up in VGA mode and
> load no drivers which aren't necessary. I have never seen a Windows system
> that will not get into safe mode. In Windows NT4, this is the "VGA Mode"
> boot option in the boot loader.
>
> > Do you known how to do?
>
> The question is, can Mandrake also provide a solution for users who don't
> know all the console tools (whether MS has them or not is irrelevant,
> since you would never need them) can still recover from choosing the wrong
> display settings, or needing to choose a different display driver?
>
> Note, I don't say hardware configuration under Windows is the greatest (I
> have spent lots of time fighting hardware support in Windows, like about 2
> hours of work to get it to work with the IDE controller on a different M/B
> when setting up hardware profiles for different machines on the same
> disk), but surely we can do at least as well in ensuring newbies don't end
> up with:
>
> localhost login:
>
>
> and believe the FUD about linux being too difficult for the average user
> to use.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
Sorry for the joke (it was) ;) and thanks for the explanations...
I fully agree with you.
