[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[chris]

On 10/13/21 19:06, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-13, chris<chris-nospam at tridac.net>  wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it was stable enough to ship and still have a copy of Suse Linux
>> for Alpha on the shelf, but it was still fairly primitive at the time
>> X windows setup and framebuffer support was a hard work.
>
> You mean you didn't like editing and creating modelines ? :-)
>
> That's a skill I once had that I don't miss losing to history...
>
> (It was the same on x86 BTW. That wasn't Alpha specific.)
>
> Simon.
>

Seriously hard work, make sure it was documented once working,
because you would never remember the sequence of runes :-). Now,
we have luxury and on FreeBSD for instance, just include
"kld)_list=radeonkms" and on boot, the system interrogates
the monitor to optimise the resolution and even works through
the better kvm switches. Resolution issues were difficult to
keep in sync in the past over several machines and only one or
two monitors...

Chris