From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 20:23:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EA537B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 413646ACC1; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:53:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:53:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any benefits to XFree86 4 on a laptop? Message-ID: <20010718125331.F69861@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010717171937.A61988@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010718121640.E69861@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010718035344.A67305@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010718035344.A67305@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:53:45AM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 18 July 2001 at 3:53:45 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:40PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 17 July 2001 at 17:19:37 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: >>> >>> No fancy graphics chips or anything, I just wondered if it is more >>> efficient, stable, or otherwise better. >> >> (looks for question.) >> >> Ah, >> >>> Subject: Re: any benefits to XFree86 4 on a laptop? >> >> Well, one significant benefit is that it supports more laptop graphics >> chip sets. Both of my latest laptops (Dell Inspiron 7500, IBM >> ThinkPad T22) need it to run at all . > > IIUC, I need to rebuild *ALL* of my X apps, correct? No. They're clients, they'll work fine. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message