From: "Robert Comer" 

> Okay, this clearly stinks way worse than Mandrake, so I'm just going to
call
> this a failure and not touch RedHat again in two or three years. A few
years
> ago I had similar problems with RedHat, but I thought it would have gotten
> better in that respect - obviously I was wrong.

It has gotten better, just not better enough, and all the distributions can
have this problem with some chipsets...

Video config is probably the biggest problem with Linux.  I wonder if any
of the BSD's are any better...

- Bob Comer




"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:3de641ca$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Soooo,
>
>
> went and bought a RH package ('cause I wanted the manuals in print), and
> started installing. We had an extra Dell box, so I used that one. In goes
> the first cd, and installation starts. The installer recognized the
monitor
> (flat panel) perfectly, and display adapter (intel 854 something)... and
> then said "no display mode available".
>
> Okey-dokey, ditch the panel and start over again with another, more
"normal"
> monitor. Install went fine, again it recognized the monitor (iiyama
> something) correctly, and installed everything.
>
> But then the display was set so what looked like 640x480 resolution, which
> was a bit difficult because the configuration window was higher than that,
> so the buttons were below the bottom of the screen. Anyone seen that
before
> (hint: it has been bothering Windows for ages)? Well, no problem, right:
> just make the window smaller by dragging the top border down, and then
move
> the whole window up to get the buttons on screen.
>
> Bu wait! The window *cannot*be*resized*from*the*top*border! Unbelievable!
> Who the fuck thought that I could not resize that windo, huh? What a
genious
> idea.
>
> Well, anyways, I managed to move the window around to get the buttons. So,
> change the resolution and restart the x-window thing (wow, ain't that a
> modern approach, having to restart the stupid thing), and hey presto - the
> same low resolution again.
>
> So, changed it again, double-checking the settings, and restarted the
whole
> machine just to make sure. This time, the display comes up as text-only,
> with an error message that is gibberish - none of the characters are
right.
> But there are two buttons, of which one has two and the other three
> characters, so those must be yes and no. Hit enter, hoping the defaults
are
> okay, and bang! systems restarts and says it cannot start x-windows at
all.
>
> Okay, this clearly stinks way worse than Mandrake, so I'm just going to
call
> this a failure and not touch RedHat again in two or three years. A few
years
> ago I had similar problems with RedHat, but I thought it would have gotten
> better in that respect - obviously I was wrong.
>
> In general, the distros need to become more uniform in support of
hardware,
> because this kind of nonsense really does not make Linux look good in, at
> least not in my books.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (a bit tired, but still determined to get a working Linux installation
soon)
>
>

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