Re: [opensuse] 11.2 - how to configure which graphics driver getsused?? -> rebuild initramfs?

On 20/11/09 00:20, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Thursday 19 Nov 2009 12:53:19 Basil Chupin wrote:


[pruned]

And to top it all all off, manuals are written for those people who
already KNOW about the subject; manuals are NOT written to provide the
novice with the necessary information to resolve his/her query. Known
fact in the environment where non-programmers have to deal with
programmers - as I did. Look at the "man pages", generally. How many
actually give you an example, a clear-cut, simple example(s), which
shows "if you want to do this then type this on the command line"? :-)

BC

Well said Basil this has been stated many times before but still you get the
read the man page or even worse the RTFM boys offering what amounts to a big
fat ZERO when it comes to constructive assistance , This seems to be an side
effect of Opensuse these days.

Not just confined to oS, Pete. Been so for decades :-( and for various
software. If you find some decent documentation written for a piece of
software I will bet you pounds to peanuts that the documentation was
written not by the programmer(s) but by a team of specialists employed
to just write documentation.

Besides, I have a tagline (which I cannot find at the moment) which goes
something like this, "I olwais wonted too bee a progremer and naw i is
won!".

(Perhaps we should be grateful for small mercies :-) .)

BC

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I work to live not live to work.


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