Not As OT As Driving Rants....

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 19:56:17 2002

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Tony Duell wrote:

> Well, FWIW, I'm running a similar vintage of Linux on a machine with just
> a (text only) MDA card. No problems at all.
>
> I believe that for text-mode operations (normal shells, etc) you can use
> any 'normal' graphics card -- MDA, CGA, EGA, or VGA. It's when you want
> to install X that things can get interesting.

  Yup. But, IIRC, the real challenge of the v1.x days was getting
graphics to fly. Sort of tying in with another thread, There were damn
few stores where I would buy PC adapters then (95-96), because CrapUSA
and Worst Buy didn't grok my need to write down chipset & ramdac specs
to take home before I made a purchase. "Of course it's supported. RIGHT
THERE on the BOX! 'Windows95 certified!" Jeez. "Linux??? Is that a
game?"

        Doc
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