Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Vincent Untz schreef:
> Le mardi 11 mars 2008, à 17:15 +0100, Martin Schlander a écrit :
>   
> > Tirsdag den 11. Marts 2008 01:51:41 skrev Stanislav Visnovsky:
> >     
> > > Dňa Monday 10 March 2008 14:21:31 Martin Schlander ste napísal:
> > >       
> > > > I think the sum total annoyance of 85% of users having to click "next",
> > > > is dwarfed by the annoyance of 15% of users with non-working hardware and
> > > > no clue what to do or what went wrong, because important information is
> > > > hidden from them.
> > > >         
> > > How is the information hidden? In fact, if you hardware does not work, it
> > > is pretty complicated to find out from the proposal screens. Your hardware
> > > will be:
> > >
> > > 1) misdetected - then, you need to be an expert to figure out
> > >       
> > > 2) not detected at all - here, we might think about how to react in this
> > > case, but you are on your own again and you will need to pick up your sound
> > > card manually (I personally have no idea which chipset I'm using).
> > >       
> > I'm mostly worried about graphics card/monitor settings - which was also a 
> > concern on the blog. I don't think you have to be an expert to know for 
> > example the best resolution or aspect ratio for your monitor. 
> >     
>
> When the user installs in graphical mode, can't he already see that it's
> right or wrong? (and when it's wrong, it should only be a matter of
> letting him press some key like F12 to change this setting)
>
> Vincent
>
>   
When the installer assumes there is not enough memory, it will tell, and 
change to dos.
The few resolutions one can choose of, are not in depth, what are they 8 
bit?
Not enough for real monitor settings.

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