Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ralph Day:
> Why do you say the i810 video support is shaky at this point? It works
> great and is packaged with LM 7.1. I'll admit you do have to do a little
> hand configuration.
That's why :/ The i810's are marketted to entry level consumers, who
would be more than a little miffed at not having it work
"out-of-the-box."
Remember that as Linux becomes more mainstream, we are going to be
getting more (and more) people who:
1) Have never used anything but Windows/MacOS (when the LM PPC port
becomes available)
2) Never had to manually configure anything
3) Don't know that X isn't the OS, just an interface.
4) Refuse to accept answers/solutions because they don't like them.
(Witness the gentleman who complained numerous times about being
unable to install X on his unsupported video card).
5) Are more than willing to blame the OS for their own lack of
knowledge.
I can't count the times I have had to tell somebody to edit
such-and-such file instead of using a (rather limited) GUI front-end
to a program. Our Windows converts are coming from a point and click
world in which all of the thinking has been done for them.
If we want to keep these people, we need to steer them away from
hardware that may pose difficulties for them until they are
comfortable enough to do the tweaking that makes it work.
In the meantime, hardware support improves constanty. The i810 is
considered by many to be a priority project, so I wouldn't be
surprised if it was Linux-newbie friendly by the time 7.2 becomes
available.
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