Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 20:36:37 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, irvine@sanbi.ac.za, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XF86 4 on 4.3-RELEASE? Message-ID: <3AA9AF55.96B72D44@urx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103092027490.55397-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > Nope. When XFree86 4.x: > > > > a) Supports a reasonable superset of all cards supported by 3.3.6 > > > > b) Doesn't halve OpenGL performance on cards like Matrox and nVidia > > (3dfx sucks so much on both that it's not an issue). > > > > c) Doesn't have a configuration tool which confuses new users > > even more than the old configuration tool did. > > You forgot one (that happens for me) > d) Doesn't take half the CPU while sitting idle. > > But then again, I suspect it has something to do with the fact I'm running > a dual head. I had to chuckle at this point. I'm running 3.3.6 and KDE-2.1 on a dual 866 coppermine system. On it, kicker has 95% of the second cpu full time. I wonder what is taking half of your system/ Kent > > -gordon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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