totally offtopic (was: RE: Simple configuration question...)

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

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> From: bob@cs.csoft.net [mailto:bob@cs.csoft.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 3:43 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: RE: Simple configuration question...
> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: bob@cs.csoft.net [mailto:bob@cs.csoft.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 3:25 PM
> > > To: Gregory Leblanc
> > > Cc: 'Marcelo J. Iturbe'; gnome-list@gnome.org
> > > Subject: RE: Simple configuration question...
> > > 
> > > > This is not a GNOME issue, but an X Window System issue.  You
> > > > should look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, and find the
> > > > POINTER  
> > > section. 
> > > > It should list your pointer there, and I tend to find that
> > > > "imps/2" works, but you could also try a more generic "PS/2".
> > > >  I'm sorry you had to choose RedHat 6.1, they did not  
> bother to do
> > > > any quality 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > WHAT?!? Please dont make such dumbass comments here. (I know 
> > > I am having
> > > to make one now, but it has to be said). I find that rh6.1 has
> > > great quality.   
> > 
> > O.K., perhaps I was a little harsh.  However, I've discovered
> > three distinct bugs in the text mode setup, and probably a dozen
> > things 
> 
> Give them a break. they just created the graphical setup 
> trying to make 
> it easier on everyone and first releases often have a fiew bugs.
> (just check out gnome 1.0 :)  

True enough, I actually mucked around a bit the the gnome that
shipped with 5.2.  :)  But they had to go break the text mode
installer.

> 
> > that they've mucked with in RPMs and dependancies.  I.E.  You
> > can't installed gnome-core without also installing enlightenment.
> >  I found 
> 
> Thats allways been the case. 6.0 had the same problem.

Oops, I didn't notice that, because I wasn't using gnome before 6.0
came out.  That really doesn't make sense, since gnome works with
other WMs.

> 
> > redhat 6.0 to be generally less quirky than 6.1, and 
> certainly easier
> > to install.  They also removed some of the functionality from
> > their 
> 
> 6.1 installed perfictly for me the first time.

Well, I still don't have my keyboard map correct, and I've changed it
a couple of times after the install.  For some reason {home} and
{end} no longer work.  :(  It also doesn't do as good a job setting
up X as the last version did, on my MACH64 type card.  

> 
> > expert mode install, as well as from their text mode install.  
> 
> Hmm. I dont know. Maybe. It is posible that there was a 
> problem with it
> that they had to remove. Ask the redhat people to see why it 
> was removed
> and if they could add it back.

They removed the help!!! You can't get package explanations in text
mode anymore.  That's a really nasty way of moving people over to the
GUI, especially those of use who can't stand 60Hz with a WHITE
screen.  Sorry for the rant,
	Greg

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