On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 18:24 -0800, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> I remember the first time I installed FreeBSD on a wintel platform, and 
> tried
> to configure X.  Had to dig up a list of the horizontal and vertical 
> refresh
> frequencies that the monitor happened to suppoort, and then DISCARD 
> most of
> them so that X didn't make bad decisions about which ones it should use.
> Windows, in contrast, read the PnP codes and got all the relevant info 
> from
> the vendors disk, and "did the right thing."  A real eye-opener...

Of course, you're comparing a case of an OS COMPLETELY supported by the
hardware manufacturer to one where the hardware manufacturer provides NO
support. NOT a fair comparison, and in fact apples to oranges in my
mine.

Remember, almost ALL of the linux hardware drivers out there were built
without ANY help from the hardware manufactures. It is only recently
that they have started to actually CONSIDER supporting linux, most
don't, but some have at least started. Intel (with their support of
centrino drivers for Linux) and nVidia are stellar examples. More will
follow.

TTYL

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