| setup nvidia card on my friends computers they are always saying the same to
| me: Why it is so thoght, readmes and blablabla. No good setup for it. I have
Because you’ve been accustomed to thinking computers are “easy”? DOS
didn’t used to be that nice, but nobody complained about editing their
autoexec.bat or typing things in. It’s only recently people have come to
assume everything must have point-and-click wizards where you can whack
the “Next” button 5 times and be done. Remember back in the 80’s when we
all had Spectrums, C64’s and suchlike? We thought nothing about typing
’load “”’ or pressing various key combinations to get things running.
| just installed acrobad reader 5.05. It’s lacks of good graphics setup too,
Yeah, acrobat is a bit weird. The fonts don’t look very nice either.
Infact fonts in X look bad in general. And while I understand the
reasons, not being able to do 2D stuff in hardware with X is a bit lame
too. Installing plugins for Netscape/Mozilla can be a bit tricky too.
| and this is X application so instaling in console is really strange. As an
| example of good software (for simple users) to setup are loki games (thx sam
| for setup 
) and HP desk jet printer drivers (also very good). This is
The Loki installer is nice. When I first saw it I thought “hang on,
it’s going to be RPM-only or put things in silly locations”, but no, it
asked me where things should go and was very nice to use. I was a bit
dubious about running a 32MB shell archive, but after looking in it
with vi I was happy 
| what makes people think that linux is freaks only OS. As long as nvidia and
| others will not release good setup program for their drivers you may forget
| about “easy install”, and that is first step to make people want to play
| games on linux !
You can use nice installers for programs, but when it comes to hardware
and drivers, you need to compile source. Linux is specifically written
that binary-only drivers are definate no-nos (why? there’s a famous
email by Linus on google somewhere that explains it quite well). And
then you need to edit the XF86Config file, get the user to enter proper
refresh rates, and then be root to install the kernel module.
There’s nothing “hard” about it, people are just accustomed to having
all the thinking done for them. You don’t need to be a whizzo programmer
to be able to type “./configure” or “make”. Even the world’s most
user-friendly computer (the Mac) has a shell now.
And as far as it concerns NVIDIA, we should be thankful they’ve
produced drivers at all. Even if they sometimes lock your PC up.On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:52:19PM +0200, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
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