guran remberg wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can understand that the goal for the installation-program is to fully
> set up the newcomers computer. At least that is what I read in tests by
> journalists.
Less a goal than a Platonic ideal. No installation program (including
Windows) manages this in every case.
>
>
> If it is a fact that no Linux, can achieve that aim: I have tried RedHat
> 6.2 => manually set to 16MB, which is the maximum, the same goes for
> Debian Potato 2.2. Slackware 7.1 gives the possibility to give the right
> amount in xf86config, the XF86Setup could not go into graphic mode on my
> Creativ 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 VANTA.
>
> Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2betarc1 both suffers from hybris, and sets the
> amount to 4096K instead of 32 MB.
Sounds lke excessive modesty rather than hubris!
>
>
> After the program has detected a Riva chipset, it ought to be possible
> to ask the user if he can give the exact amount, so that 32 bits
> 1280x1024 can be set instead of 1024x768.
>
> I have had users that have emailed me and said that they are incapable
> of using graphic mode at all.
Me neither (at least with 7.0 and 7.1 - I haven't tried a full install of
7.2 yet). With a Trio S3 Virge GX neither full graphic nor vgalo will work,
but there is no problem when it boots into X, just a little tweaking of
XF86Config required (if we didn't have the aim of making Linux accessible
to beginners, I'd recommend that all distros produce a substandard X
configuration, just to get people used to hacking, heh heh).
Robin
