From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Randall Parker wrote:
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> And this is supposed to be a "user friendly" OS that's
ready for JQP
>> to use? I think not.
>
> Glenn,
>
> These open source guys are not the virile conquerors of the world that
> they imagine themselves to be.
>

Nah you're just whinging coz in Linux you can screw around with such
things, you just don't know how to.

How many times on Windows have you manually delved deep down into the
registry etc to tweak & set up etc your vid driver? If it's not
possible via the windows gui or "driver gui" then it's not
possible & you live with that.

> Trying to make a Linux box run dual displays rotated to portrait mode is
> a research project. If I was using Windows I'd have been done in less
> than an hour.
>

Rubbish. I had exactly that problem with my laptop running XP. In one way
you are correct in that after an hour or so I found out that with my ATI
driver it was not possible, no way no how so research finished.


> I had to download an Austrian guy's patched version of Matrox's driver
> to even get this far. Though he says on his site that Matrox has
> accepted patches from him before and put those patches into their
> source. So at least the Open Source model is helping to partially
> compensate for the lack of big time commercial motivation to make things
>   work correctly. But the compensation is only partial.
>

Gee et voila le diff. On Windows there was the ATI driver from ATI &
that was that. No possibility of downloading someone else's driver. Want to
do it on Windows XP? Does the ATI driver allow you to do it? If not sod
off.


> I'm only willing to put up with this because I'm starting to modify a
> Linux driver in my day job. I want to know a lot about Linux
> configuration and internals.
>

Good for you. If you want to pretend it's windows then use it as you would
windows. Can you do what you want via the GUi & will you accept simply
those config files generated by the relevant prog? If not then you're not
treating it as windows which while fine means that whinging that it's not
like windows looks a bit silly.


Adam

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