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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Video Driver Change
- Message-ID: <sheldon.726181906@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <105933@bu.edu> <1ia7rlINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:11:46 GMT
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- In <1ia7rlINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
-
- >William Heiser (heiser@acs.bu.edu) wrote:
- [person installed wrong video driver]
-
- >This is a very good question that I hope will get some constructive answers.
- >During installing of the latest beta 2.1, after installing I did a selective
- >install to install the proper video driver. When it gave me a choice of
- >resolutions I thought (erroneously) "Well my card is fully populated in
- >memory so I'll choose the 1MB version". However my card fully expanded
- >only has 0.5MB! It was a disaster, the system came up but when the
- >desktop appeared it was really a complete unusable mess. There was no way
- >I could do anything (like run selective install over again). All I could
- >think to do was reinstall which I did. That is NOT the way to correct
- >such a problem. I'm glad it happened on the system the with CDROM and
- >not the system I had to use 3.5" floppies to install.
-
- I have to agree. I seem to have done something very similar last night on
- my system, and I shall be forced to reinstall the entire operating system,
- all 34 disks. (Damn preinstalled version)
-
- This does not seem right. Under SCO Opendesktop you're able to select and
- install video drivers from a console text screen, so that if you really
- screw up your XWindows session it can be recovered fairly easily.
-
- I would much prefer it if a good deal of the system configuration could be
- done thru an OS/2 text window, and was available from the boot floppies.
-
- Right now I'm finding that if anything goes wrong with system configuration
- the system will lock and not boot up. I'm spending far more time
- reinstalling floppies than I am running applications.
-
- IMHO, OS/2 at this point is simply not useable for a production
- environment.
-
- Although it's very nice and has a great deal of potential. I'd just like
- to see it improved so you can't screw it up so easily.
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
- Project Vincent ICSS Resource Unit
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