Taking A Break from Ubuntu

[Michael Haney]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I agree with you that fighting it like this shouldn't be
> necessary. I'm
> sorry you've been ignored, and I can only assume that not many people have
> the kind of specialist hardware you have (how the hell did you get hold of one
> of those???).
>
> Keep on with the PRs, and consider me a supporter on this issue.
>
> Can other people just voice their support here?
>
> One suggestion Michael is that you could try writing/locating a driver for the
> screen, and getting them to include that...
>

Thanks for the support.  As a visually handicapped computer user who
has many friends who are also visually handicapped or blind this is
very important to me.

I got the Sun CRT for free from Craigslist in Washington, DC ...
technically somewhere in the Arlington, VA area.  Its a 21" CRT which
is really nice, but its a brick!  I mean its heavy, you could get some
serious abs benching pressing this thing.

I may look into writing a driver for it.  I need to figure out HOW to
write a driver for the monitor and maybe use the specs from my old
xorg.conf file as the settings.

My video card is an old Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 w/256MB of DDR RAM.  It
an an 8x AGP card that's served me well for a number of years but is
too old now to play any of the more modern games.  When I still had
Windows on this machine it could handle Half-Life 2 and Portal just
fine, but couldn't handle Oblivion.  Windows is gone now, and Steam is
coming to Linux by the end of the year.  Wooho!

Anyway, I'll research some things while I explore Mandria.  I used
this distro once before a very long time ago back when it was still
called Madrake.  Its based on RedHat, which I played around with for a
while a long time ago also.  I can tell you, Linux has really come a
long way since those early days.  It was also the first time I ever
re-compiled a Linux kernel in order to get sound to work on an IBM
Thinkpad (yes, an IBM Thinkpad, this was long long before Lenovo took
over the brand).

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