Am 13. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte Deepak Saxena so:

> Does anyone on the list have a Radeon9000 running with either
> RedHat9 or Debian (Unstable or Knoppix) with TrueType fonts
> working? If so, please send me your XF86Config file. :)
>
> I am ready to just give up on Linux on my desktop at home after
> fighting with this piece of crap card for so long or might just
> go buy an NVidia card to make life easier.

Someone said within my reading the other day that the latest CVS version of
XFree86 now supports all of the nvidia cards. Don't know how accurate that
is or what level of 'supported' is in there.

> Under Debian I was able to run XFree86, but no good font support.

Was that testing or stable? Testing should be in good shape and it's mostly
stable.

> I just blew that away with an install of RedHat9 and X is having
> problems creating a mode that will work with my monitor (Formac
> Gallery 1740).
>
> <rant>
> I have to say I am _extremely_ dissapointed with the state of
> Linux distributions. It seems that everytime I install a newer
> version of a distro (RH or MDK), it just gets worse. RH9 comes with
> a kernel tree that won't even completely build! MDK never upgrades
> properly and is known to make things unbootable. And while Debian might
> be wonderfully flexible if you figure out all the magic behind it, after
> hacking on the kernel for 8-10 hours a day, the last thing I want to do
> is hack on X11, cups, or postfix config files. I want to install my

X11 is a problem child on debian right now :(. I think Branden does a good
job, but he's up against debian policy. What you do for a living is beyond
my capabilities, but I think porting X11 would be worse than porting the
kernel, especially when porting it to something like the S/390 and
especially when you don't have an S/390 :).

'X --config' or something will get X to provide you with a configuration
file.

I generally avoid dead tree devices, but I have successfully used CUPS the
last two times I tried it.

Postfix should have a postfixconfig or some such script. It asks a few
questions and sets up basic mail services for a couple of different
scenerios. If you need something more complex the config files for postfix
seem to be documented well enough to handle most situations, IMHO.

> OS and have it work. One would think that with 10 years to do this,
> at least one distro would get this right.  sigh...

I agree with you that the distributions are working together well enough an=
d
they're not building as well as they should on the advances they make.

I still consider Linux better than the alternatives.

> /me considers buying a G5 w/OSX...

You would greatly miss being able to get under the hood.

ciao,

der.hans
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