[CrackMonkey] Req: svga video-driver for Packard Bell Model 850

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> writes:

    Rick> begin  Paul J Collins quotation:
    >> Read his message, and take off the Obtuse-O-Specs before you do
    >> so.
    Rick> Indeed, it made perfectly plain that what he needs is *BSD
    Rick> or Linux.

AND the contacts, Rick.

    >> A Packard Bell?  Perfectly good?  What planet have you been on?
    Rick> Perfectly good if received gratis.  Until it fails, in which
    Rick> case it becomes a perfectly good doorstop.
 
Yeah, all the free crap the vagrants leave on the streets is JUST
GREAT TOO!  We're so LUCKY!

    >> The only reason X is still popular is because of the huge
    >> installed base of clients and toolkits.
    Rick> Indeed, I look forward to the further development of the
    Rick> Berlin system -- but, for the time being, there isn't
    Rick> anything else suitable.  (Well, maybe that whack-assed
    Rick> display-PDF thing, but I'm not sure about its legal status.)

It's officially listed as a banned substance.  All the Eastern bloc
athletes use it.

    >> Hey, isn't that why people use Windows?
    Rick> Again, its correct name is "X Windows System" or "X".  There
    Rick> once was some proprietary offering with a similar name, but
    Rick> that was a last decade or so.

I've heard of the X Window System; what is this ``X Windows System''
of which you speak?

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