Ted, You are expecting a lot from a newbie... this is why in another post I advised to just reinstall the distro cleanly and start from there. Unless the man has a radeon or one of those just released video adapters he can live quite well with what comes with the distro. After a few months of getting comfortable with his new environment he can always decide to upgrade and do it understanding what he is doing Not everybody has your experience ;^) Actually (no flame war intended :-) I don't believe switching to freeBSD or from RH to any other linux distro will help much. There is a learning curve involved and the more reasonable among us post their config and log and don't moan ;~} cheers Lionel --- Ted Spradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:35:31 -0500 > "Jason J.W. Pock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All I want to do is use Linux. > > Umm, that invites two questions: a) Why? and b) What sort of work do > you want to use it for? > > > Why must it be so difficult? > > Difficult compared to what? > > > I've > > tried installing it from Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 cd's. I've tried > > installing it from Debian cd's. NO LUCK! And it's always this > > XFree86 stuff. I just can't figure it out. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! > > Does anyone else feel this way? > > I don't, but I have very limited experience with Linux, I admit. I've > been using FreeBSD since Feb 1995. I spent several hours with pencil, > paper, and pocket calculator working on my XFree86 configuration that > first time, but nevertheless the net result was *so much better* than > any of the various general-purpose computer systems that I had dealt > with in the previous 30 years that FreeBSD has been my strong preference > ever since. > > These days, with PCI/AGP and I2C/DDC/EDID equipment that identifies > itself, XFree86 4.2.0 virtually installs itself. > > Sorry if this seems a bit of a rant, but I'm responding to a bit of a > rant. > > What I would suggest is that you remove all traces of previous > installations of XFree86 and start over with 4.2.0. "sudo rm -rf > /usr/X11R6" and "sudo find /etc -name "X*" -delete" should do it. > > -- > Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in > the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
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