On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:39, John McBride wrote:
William Hooper wrote:
John McBride said:
It's just one of those annoying things that Microsoft handles better, I guess. At least MS gives you something, a low res gui and a means to get to the configurator, without having to resort to the command line.
Nope, sorry. I know from experience that Microsoft will do the same thing, generally under the same situation. Try setting an LCD panel (connected to a KVM that doesn't pass the info) to a resolution higher than it supports.
The same guy who built this fedora box builds about 10 windows boxes the same way every week.
He builds up the system using a display on his desk, then unplugs the box and carries it to the destination cube and plugs in a flat panel display. Same model displays on each end, different OS.
He gets a gui from MS windows, and can reconfigure to the new display.
redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig
Yes, the previous replies already mention this. Redundant.
OK - so momentarily, you don't get pretty screen to look at when you
reconfigure X-Windows for different screen and you have to type one
sentence instead of clicking your way through things.
Personally I don't care. It looks unprofessional to the users, whom we are trying to transition into Linux. It looks like a system failure (rather than a misconfiguration) to them, and that's a BAD thing where I work.
The best thing about open source is that you can add value to the system by writing the program which solves the problem instead of just sitting back and whining.
Whining...like the sounds you're making right now? All I did was mention the possibility of an enhancement to Fedora, on the Fedora mailing list.
That's what this list is for; there was no notice that I had to contribute patches here when I signed up, only that I try and stay on topic. Somehow, in your mind, you are a valid participant and I am not.
You, a person who makes a redundant comment, then resorts to name-calling while closing things out, yeah that makes a lot of sense!
