On Sunday 21 May 2006 04:58, Rikard Johnels wrote:
My question/ observation is; Is this really how a professional utility should work? You need quite a bit of expertise to fix the graphics setup. Especially with the newer cards. Its not the clearest and easiest for newcomers to fix a graphical problem. The short answer is, yes.
The longer answer is-- try hand-hacking a windoze system sometime when things don't work correctly. ;-) The real answer is that video is constantly battling between hardware and software--one or the other is always just a little ahead and the other needs to catch up. The beauty of XFree86 is that it can be hand-hacked easily by almost anyone. For my 2cents the Sax folks have done a very nice job keeping up. And the good news is that when there are little glitches they get fixed fast and the user community gets a work-around... try getting that from Redmond any time sooooon. (It just doesn't happen) -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net