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I've always thought that the install guide would provide for devices |
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that are not detected properly. |
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In any case, some very good dicussion going on, aand i've been jotting |
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down some notes, regarding audience, content, etc. |
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So.. what is everyone's position on including basic howtos for various |
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popular desktop applications? (can a vote be taken from actual users of |
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gentoo?) |
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On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 17:14, dams@×××.fr wrote: |
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> Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o> said: |
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> > On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:31 pm, foser wrote: |
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> >> I would even take it a step further and scrap the refresh rate mumbo |
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> >> jumbo. We have Xrandr and related tools now, X configuration should be |
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> >> kept to a basic guide to get it running decently. Then a more extensive |
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> >> xfree guide could be done and linked to for additional (expert) |
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> >> configuration needs. |
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> > Why not just detect X configuration at boot and save stuff like preferred |
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> > resolution etc somewhere else? |
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> > Of course, there might be a problem if the autodetection doesn't work, but we |
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> > could probably fallback to VGA so the user can manually configure it. |
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> That's the way to go imo, but a desktop guide should be usefull for the cases |
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> where you are in trouble, that is when the detection doesn't work. |
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> I remember installing my second gentoo on a running linux, mounting stage1 cd |
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> iso in loopback. So no boot, no detection. Of course it's unusual, but if the |
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> guide can be some kind of reference, I think it's a usefull feature. |
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