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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/11/2015 9:37 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
>> Am 11.10.2015 um 14:08 schrieb Tomasz Wlostowski:
>>> On 11.10.2015 14:03, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
>>>>> CAN'T THEY DO A FSCKING WORKING GPU without having to hack the drivers
>>>>> to get them installed?!
>>> Lorenzo, if you know better how to do a GPU, maybe you should apply for
>>> a job at Intel and teach them?
>>
>> This, and such lamenting is pretty pointless, because users have their
>> hardware already. Solutions can be on a software level, only. Asking
>> users to install a specific version of Mesa drivers is an option, asking
>> them to buy new hardware not.
> 
> Yes indeed, and BTW:
> 
> 1) KiCad site and docs are missing a "recommended hardware" list, just to warn
> users that probably KiCad is going to work well/bad on your choosen (or
> not) hardware. There is not even a recomended screen resolution that IMHO
> all decend CADs have or the suggestion to use ...

This probably should be added to the KiCad website in the "Getting
Started" section.

> 
> 2) the only mention to this is here:
> 
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/en/pcbnew.html#_general_remarks
> 
> for the 3 button mouse and nothing more (and that should be in the
> getting started doc IMHO)...
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Marco Ciampa
> 
> I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
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