Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support !

[Agnelo de la Crotche <agnelo.geo@yahoo.com>]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Agnelo de la Crotche wrote:
>
> > But , please, tell me, because I'm curious : Why is it so difficult, so
> > impossible to add some kind of minimum VGA support  ?
>
> because vga cards are a bitch, and pc compatibility is a bitch, and
> because PC hardware sucks, and the vendors suck, and you can't get
> information on the cards, and overall .... graphics cards are a major pain
> the ass. I can state this with certainty as I'm dealing with it every day
> in LinuxBIOS. Most of the people who design PC hardware should be shot.
>
> > I 'm not a video  expert  (definitely not) but as much as I can see when
> > booting Plan9  with video auto detection
>
> look, the specs are out there just as much for you as anyone else. If you
> don't have support, and you want support, write it. You can't write it
> because you are not capable, don't complain here.
>
> I hate it when people complain like this about stuff that costs them
> nothing.
>

As well as I do when people answer in newsgroups to say nothing !
The fact that I'm not capable of doing something doesn't mean that I don't
have the right to complain.
Why not ?  Following this logic leads to a nonsense ( or a dictature ).

I'm not asking if it's moral or allowed to complain about  stuff which costs
nothing or whatever.
And I wasn't comparing myself with You guys (?)  but simply an operating
system with other operating
systems (and of course it implied their designers).

While telling that PC hardware sucks, and vga cards sucks, and vendors suck,
you do nothing but complain,
and you do worse because you say nothing new.  (And you do not take any risk,
because everybody must agree)
You may or may not hate me. I will continue to complain whenever it is
necessary.
(In what world do you think you would live if people had never complained ?)

sincerely,

agnelo.