tlug: Re: Rh 'Enter your own' glitch

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> <RANT> you'd think that after all this time, xf86config would
> comprehend the existence of Japanese keyboards and that after all this
> time RH would fix their installer so that "Enter your own" for the
> monitor specs really meant that, instead of choosing ranges of numbers
> that fit no monitor I've ever used</RANT> 

  I can still remember in the summer of '95 spending the better part of
an afternoon (or was it a whole day?) getting an xf86config tweaked
into shape to finally give me a 320x200 X Window System - and I felt
triumphant when it finally worked!  

  So this almost completely automatic X setup with RH 5.2 and 6.0
(never tried any earlier flavours) impresses the hell out of me.  Still,
this "Enter your own" glitch is a surprising and annoying fly in the 
ointment, isn't it?

Dennis McMurchy, 
Sointula, B.C. / Tojinmachi, Fukuoka
Canada           Japan


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