On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 01:37, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > On Sunday 08 December 2002 02:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Pixel, > > > > While I agree with you to a point, newbies won't care WHY Mandrake > > doesn't work with this card well and Knoppix does, only that it doesn't. > > You say that the way Mandrake handles it is better (ie. it uses the SIS > > driver, not a generic one), I beg to differ. My screen was barely > > visible with ANY of Mandrake's combo's...with Knoppix it is beautiful. I > > don't care which driver gets used, so long as it works!! Does > > acceleration matter if you can't see the screen first!!??? I would say > > the most important thing is to be able to see the screen!! > > I agree completely. What lacks sorely in XFree86, IMHO, is the fallback > mechanism - if this driver doesn't work, use another driver, and if nothing > works, use some worst case default ( 640x480 generic VGA driver or VESA FB > driver for videocard, autoprobe for mice). As in (cough) Windows. Anyway, it > is pretty hard these days to find EGA card or (cough) CGA card.
This is also a position that could help when say replacing a blown video card. Many is the time that once I got "something" working, and could then adjust from there, to get a nice product. For ex-windytes (windows users) the ability to limp into a visible mode and then properly adjust with MCC would be a really big help when changing hardware etc.
