From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 17:51:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556B14267 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwlink.com (ip99.r12.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.175.99]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05900; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:51:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3898DE0D.AD6C4574@nwlink.com> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 17:46:53 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmutter@ds.net Cc: Marwan Fayed , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial X-servers References: <3898B729.30134941@ds.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "James A. Mutter" wrote: > > Marwan Fayed wrote: > > > > Can anyone comment on the X-servers from Xi, Metrolink, or others with > > FreeBSD? I believe Xi is the only commercial one that works with FreeBSD. > It's been a while but in the past I used the Accelerated-X server from > Xi, I wasn't entirely happy with it. At this point I have to say that > unless your current video card is not supported by XFree86 there isn't > really any reason to make the move to a commercial server. I downloaded and tried out the Accelerated-X demo and it was _much_ faster than XFree86. I would be using it if I had money to throw around. -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message