[CLUE-Tech] Re:"getting insanely frustrated"

[Jed S. Baer]

> Mike Staver wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting insanely
> >frustrated with linux as a desktop at this point if I can't do
> >something as simple as adjust the black-out settings for my monitor. 

Well, I have to say that main thing that got me to switch to linux (RH 5.1
- back then) was how insanely difficult it was to get Windoze adjusted to
work how I wanted it to. Many, many things had no configurability at all,
without getting into the registry and editing them. Often, that meant
dealing with bitmapped option indicators. One example being that it kept
recreating unused directories that I was deleting. Something was just
assuming that of course, I'd be using IE to browse the web, even after I
deleted as much of it as I could find. Hey, even Gnome doesn't create a
sprawling hidden directory tree unless I actually invoke a Gnome program.
And, once I got the hang of it, I much prefer doing a kernel compile to
hacking the 'doze registry.

Yes, there have been times when I've been frustrated with Linux as well -
or more precisely, somebody's notion of what constitutes a man page, or a
config file. The thing is, that with Linux, you _can_ find out what's
going on. I've worked on thing like Windows networking settings, and found
things that just weren't settable, even though they should have been, and
were easy to do in Linux.

And no amount of frustration has been able to overcome the joy of not
having to deal with Windows. Yes, Linux needs some things to make it more
user friendly, and I suspect many of them will come along (ever tried to
customize a .gtkrc file?).

Could you summarize what you have done? I recall many suggestions, but not
the results. I'm assuming that if setterm did the trick, we wouldn't be
having this converstaion. IIRC, you already checked your BIOS settings?
Have you recompiled the kernel with the power management stuff turned off?

jed

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