From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 23:28:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0DE4274 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:28:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA67272; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:28:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA76016; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:28:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA30490; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:28:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:28:35 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: R Joseph Wright Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: commercial X-servers Message-ID: <20000203082835.A30283@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <3898B729.30134941@ds.net> <3898DE0D.AD6C4574@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3898DE0D.AD6C4574@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:46:53PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 05:46:53PM -0800, R Joseph Wright 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. Oh, no! Metrolink works. I got me one when my Matrox card wasn't supported bu Xfree86, but changed back to XFree86 when support for my card came. It worked well. > > > 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 -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message