-=> fusion wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ga> Probably my biggest dislike of Slackware, right there. A real world
fu> mine is the .new and .orig files that get scattered around when
fu> software is updated lol
I usually just ignore those... :-)
fu> before that it was kernel updates back when i had an nvidia card.. the
fu> instructions basically had you running some swap commands because parts
fu> of xorg had to be replaced, rebuilding the kernel driver (hopefully not
fu> accidentally to the old kernel version instead of the new one), and
fu> then swapping the new files back into xorg.. not really hard but was a
fu> nuisance when you accidentally miss a step and your desktop comes up @
fu> 800x600..
Oh yes, I remember that too. In fact I remember having to manually edit
xorg.conf files and fiddle with resolutions, etc... "modeline"... UGH.
Things have improved in that area, at least.
... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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