From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronald G Minnich To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support ! In-Reply-To: <3D079A78.895ACEAE@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:19:08 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: abe06bc6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. ron