From: Chris Robinson 

Just remember that many of these problems are down to the hardware vendors
not providing Linux drivers.  As Linux gains pace, more hardware vendors
will hop onboard which will help sort some of these issues.

Chris.

"Scott.Little" wrote:

>  [ 16 Jul 03 07:48, Joe Barr wrote to All ]
>
>  JB> 10. Hot plug-and-play
>
> Plain ol' plug and play would suit me fine.  X won't even start on my new box
> using the included nv, vesa, vga, etc. drivers (I have to download new
> drivers).  There really is no excuse for X not to start in at least 640x480
> using VESA (that's got to be at least a decade old by now).
>
> Same deal with my NIC.  Have to add 5 lines worth of DEFs to the 3c59x.c
> driver, recompile, modprobe, and poof.  Network.  Why does it need to
> specifically know about my device when it's perfectly compatible with the
> driver otherwise?  Haven't they ever heard of "generic" drivers?
>
> -- Scott Little  [fidonet#3:712/848 / sysgod{at}sysgod.org]
>
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