Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:28:55 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: jmutter@ds.net, Marwan Fayed <s0121430@cs.laurentian.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial X-servers Message-ID: <20000202182855.E25520@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3898DE0D.AD6C4574@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:46:53PM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002021751530.13645-100000@altair.cs.laurentian.ca> <3898B729.30134941@ds.net> <3898DE0D.AD6C4574@nwlink.com>
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* R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> [000202 18:19] wrote: > "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. It also crashes a lot, almost explains the 10 minute limit... Actually that's not fair, since thier 4.x server worked almost flawlessly. However XFree has cool extentions that I'm pretty sure aren't present in Xig's server. Also Xig has proven pretty annoying to FreeBSD users: "Oh, you crash and you're running FreeBSD 4.0? Try going to 3.x." "Urm, I develop for FreeBSD 4.0! And your 4.0 X server didn't have any problems." "*shrug*" Added to the fact that I have a Matrox which is pretty well supported under Xfree (damn fast) and I'm using XFree Multihead (3.9.17) without a single crash... I would only recommend Xig if you had a card you were totally unable to get working under XFree and instead of going out and buying a matrox you'd rather spend $100 _and_ you didn't mind a 200$ upgrade path to get OpenGL (which is free from Xfree). I've heard good things about metroX, but unfortunatly haven't had the chance to try them out. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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