From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 12:06:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BF816A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:06:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1147043D2D for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:06:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 15595 invoked by uid 0); 19 Aug 2004 12:06:42 -0000 Received: from user-69-73-60-132.knology.net (HELO ?10.0.0.68?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 19 Aug 2004 12:06:42 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <030001c48594$42e7fb90$6501a8c0@Nomad> References: <030001c48594$42e7fb90$6501a8c0@Nomad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <63E93E7B-F191-11D8-B845-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:39:35 -0500 To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: Xorg or XFree86? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:06:45 -0000 On Aug 18, 2004, at 9:28 PM, Eric Crist wrote: > I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding > installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than > XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those advantages? On a new machine with 5.2.1 I decided to use X.org rather than XFree86. Built everything from source as I was also interested in abusing this machine a bit for confidence that it would be reliable. Creation of an XF86Config has always been one of my biggest nightmares. Its way more than I care to do by hand. The automatic tools rarely get me closer than 90%. Its always something such as, "Why is it in 8 bit mode?" Used xorgconfig, which is obviously based on XF86Config, and was easily able to configure for a single resolution with 8, 16, and 24 bit depths, and selected 16 as the default. I don't remember why this was always so hard with XF86Config. I still had to hand insert DPMS and wheel mouse parameters, but for the most part I understand those. :-) Installed KDE after X.org. For the most part the fonts look better than the supposedly same KDE under XF86 on another machine. Only the font used for articles http://ezine.daemonnews.org/ look worse. Was a bit concerned whether the 8MB ATA Rage XL PCI video would be satisfactory. The stock video on Dell 400SC. Haven't tried to play a DVD on it, but otherwise its just fine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Top posters will not be shown the honor of a reply.