on 7/23/00 12:47 PM, Anton Graham wrote:
> 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.
I don't hink this is a bad thing
a big problem with linux is that the GUI interface to settings are very bad
the reason I think is that most linux users to date are computer guys who
don't mind tweeking the text file. so the GUI control panel
>
> 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.
>
