From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Agnelo de la Crotche Message-ID: <3D09F462.D6C6C592@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support ! Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:50:53 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ad7c5918-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Fco.J.Ballesteros" wrote: > I think we all may agree with you, but putting Ronald message in a > different format, I'd say that it would be better if we all tried to > add the missing pieces or help to add them instead of complaining > about them not being there. In that sense, I couldn't agree more with > Ronald. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Plus : in one's native language, they may be hundreds of manners of expressing how you feel about something which doesn't work, without giving others the impression that you're complaining. In my poor english I found only one. Sorry about that. Agnelo > > Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support ! > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:45:43 GMT > From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" > Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu > Organization: U.S. Army Research Laboratory > To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu > References: <3D079A78.895ACEAE@yahoo.com>, > > Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > I hate it when people complain like this about stuff that costs them > > nothing. > > I will say, though, that Plan 9 would be a lot more widely useful > if it contained a "generic" VESA driver in order to support new > video cards as soon as they appear. Xfree86 has one that perhaps > could serve as the starting point for a Plan 9 driver.