Blessed -- thrice blessed -- be the developers!

[Will Backman]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 17:06, Beartooth wrote:
> I first got FC1 maybe three months or so after it came out; got it
> installed & configured after much help online (especially on and under
> novalug) -- and liked it very much.
> 
> Then I went out and bought a fancy flat panel monitor, a BenQ FP767 -- and
> had so much grief with configuring that, that I finally despaired and went
> back, with deep regret, to RH9.
> 
> Just the other day I picked up a couple of books in a local store that
> came with CDs -- one, Ball & Duff, actually also had a DVD; and the
> machine I put it on this time has a reader; so I used that, and of course
> ran up2date at once. It wasn't long till I thought to check the GUI
> display configuration -- and there, lo and behold!, was an entry for the
> FP767. Bingo! I swapped monitors, connecting the flat one to the FC1
> machine; chose that entry in the configurator -- and it just runs!
> 
> Vast is my gratitude, vast! Bless them every one! (And if somebody who can
> post to their list will kindly point to this post, TIA for that -- I'm not
> competent even to *read* a developers' list, let alone cruft it up with my
> subscription. But I sure do enjoy the work of those who are!) Free beer
> and adulation await any who pass through Blacksburg, Virginia.
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Implacable, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
> Work is for people who can't hunt.
> 
> 
If you don't see your monitor on the list, you can submit the DCC info
to the package maintainers, which will help get it supported more
quickly.