-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 23:29:53 -0400, Jesse Gilman wrote:
>What about software, even free software, whose technical documentation >plainly and bluntly lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's >pervasively well-documented feature of supporting multiheaded (multiple >monitored) systems. OK. After reading this I cd'd to /usr/doc/X11/ and read XFree86-FAQ.gz. In less than a minute I found the following: Q.A14- Can I use more than one video card in the same machine with XFree86? Although it is technically possible to use multiple PCI-based SVGA cards in the same machine, none of the servers currently support this. The VGA16 and Mono servers are both capable of running both a VGA compatible card and a non-VGA compatible monochrome card in the same machine. For XFree86-4.0 we are working on true multi head support. >I have just spent some $450 for a monitor and a card, based on my perusal >of the technical documentation Then I fail to see how you could miss that clear indication that XFree86 does not support the feature you were seeking. Anything which is readily found by someone in under a minute with a simple search isn't all that hard to find at all, IMHO. >It took me a week to delve into the documents, write all the scripts and put >>everything together. A week to delve into the documents and not once did you read the FAQ? >What good is free software when people are deliberately misled about what it >can do? How many rotten apples in the barrell does it take to infect the >good ones there? I dunno, but before you go off half-cocked again, might I suggest reading ALL the documentation, especially the one clearly marked as answering the *F*requently *A*sked *Q*uestions. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNwgx7Xpf7K2LbpnFEQJqNwCgxQdFM9bJk9nbiVLmXyqBT/bhV9wAoLc+ KJ1IGHHQ04g9ZN7I8PnNAm99 =fV4o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----