From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 14 5:37:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6D537B41A for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420182D0552 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:37:15 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fAEDbE122724 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:37:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:37:14 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: questions at FreeBSD Subject: XFree86-4.0.2 to XFree86-4.1.0: To upgrade or not? Message-ID: <20011114073714.B22520@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Hello All. I'm currently running XF86-4.0.2 as distributed as a package on FreeBSD-4.2REL. The video is i810. My question is simple, and I hope the answer is also: Is it worth upgrading to XF86-4.1.0? What I know is improved is the switching from the X session to the consoles and back (pardon the inaccurate terminology), and DRI is supported, but after that, what is the impetus? I don't run "exotic stuff", I'm not a gamer, and I foresee no need for OpenGL and the like. I am, however, trying to get Xine to play nice on FreeBSD, and I wonder if a newer XF86 version plays into this effort. I see that XF86-4.1.0 is not distributed as a FreeBSD package, only as a port. My inclination then is to install the FreeBSD binaries supplied by XFree86. However, I see the FreeBSD port distribution has several patches to the source. Is this supposed to raise flags telling me that installing the port results in a better system, or are those patches included in the XFree86 binaries? Finally, come the install, is renaming the two existing X directories sufficient to keep them safe, or must they be backed up and removed? OK, so maybe the answer won't be simple. ;-, TIA, Dave -- It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes an 800Mhz P3 to run Windows XP. Something is wrong here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message