Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:30:06 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Nils Holland <nils@frozenfeelings.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242013570.3365-100000@mammalia.sea> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004241740410.19308-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, f.johan.beisser wrote: > > well, the XFree86 4 port in $PORTSDIR/x11/XFree86-4 works, i've been using > it for the last couple of weeks. yes, it's pretty nice, some features are > very excellent.. but i've been contemplating rolling back to 3.3.6. > > i *highly* suggest reading all of your available documentation first, that > means seeing the XFree86.org website, and digging up everything you can > find. > > since 4.0 is a rewrite of all the drivers, not all of them that are > supported in 3.3.6 are in 4.0. > > that's just a word of warning. > > as for the rollback: why? > > well, i've been having some issues with shared pixmaps, and general > lossage in performance. as the server continues to be up (past 3 days, > generally) it ends up forcing the restart of my window manager (in this > case, enlightenment), anyhow, the window manager is not really at fault, > it's the X server, because it's fine, for a short while. > I agree about the "lossage in performance" and I went back to 3.3.6. I was getting a scrambled screen every time I switched from a virtual console to the X console that lasted for a few seconds. I also felt that it was generally a bit slower than 3.3.x, at least when starting the X server. I didn't have a problem with hardware, for I have a well supported Diamond Viper 550. I did like the xf86config, as it had a couple more options than earlier versions, especially being able to choose the default color depth. Having only one server for all hardware is also a nice feature, I suppose. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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