Subject: Xserver issues - and - Where to find Linux documentation that doesn't suck?
From: John Norair (jnorair@Princeton.EDU)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2001 - 10:09:03 MST
Xserver part:
Getting the XServer to work: it says no display found, where do I fix
that?
I have posted this before. I'm just going to toss it up again to see if
anyone bites.
Where is Linux documentation + unfortunate, subconsciously induced rant.
My biggest problem with Linux is that it has no corporate entity that's
really behind it, so there's no be-all/end-all documentation. It seems
to me that the Linux user base learns and passes on knowledge through a
verbal system more appropriate for tribal groups like Free Masons and
Navajo. I have read quite a few "Linux Docs" (a lot) and I find them
very unfulfilling. Where do you find this great Linux documentation? I
suppose I could buy support from TerraSoft, but at this point I won't
pay a cent for YDL: In terms of opportunity cost it has already cost
thousands of dollars.
I'm stuck in this bad situation, where I know quite a bit about what's
going wrong - more than anyone I've encountered - but it's not enough to
solve the problem. This is where it would be very nice to have explicit
corporate documentation.
Considering the time I have put into trying to get my system to work, I
probably could have rewritten enough parts of the kernel source to force
the damn thing to work. So please, if anyone has any idea where to find
detailed documentation that explain how to fix it that doesn't ramble on
about what's going on (I know what's going on), I'd be much obliged.
Thanks,
John Norair
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