Re: Linux InstallFest -- DC -- 20 Feb 99

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From: Dr Paul Kinsler
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:00

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Charles Packer <packer@shell.clark.net> wrote:
> It came down to this: Windows 95 doesn't care what video monitor
> I attach to the used Compaq Deskpro I bought recently. With
> Linux, it's a big deal to switch over from an older fixed-scan
> model to an upscale multiscan model. 

Neither does Linux.  Just stick in the generic defaults of
(S)VGA xserver and (S)VGA monitor, and all should be well.
And there is the XF86Setup graphical install prog, which 
took me only a few mins to use today.

OK, you want to fine tune stuff, you need to go fiddle about.
But to get up and running takes little effort if you use 
XF86Setup.  You did read the XFree howto's, didnt you?

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From: eenpk@bloch.leeds.ac.uk (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Linux InstallFest -- DC -- 20 Feb 99
Date: 1999/02/10
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