Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:54:29 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: commercial X server? Message-ID: <20040625095429.GA33857@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200406241204.44669.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20040624113511.GA31152@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <200406241204.44669.kirk@strauser.com>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:04:44PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 2004-06-24 06:35 am, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > > > I'm looking for a commercial X server (for -current with Intel 845G) > > but Xi graphics (www.xig.com) no longer has standard FreeBSD support > > (only custom/OEM) and www.metrolink.com seems to be down while I couldn't > > find a cached version of the site on Google. > > Is there any particular reason you specifically want to pay for it rather > than installing, say, the x11/xorg port? In the first place stability, and as a bonus maybe some speed-up. I'm currently using the XFree86-4 port, and X screws up so often (daily) and badly (no console, ctrl-alt-backspace useless) that I'd like to try alternatives. I'm also looking into other ways to improve performance: because hangs happened almost exclusively while running OpenOffice I recompiled this thingie. It seems to help until now but I haven't run it enough yet to be sure. BTW, if it were my own PC and not the PC of my employer I would simply put in another video card and disable the onboard 845G. Anyway I wouldn't have bought this stock Dell machine in the first place :-/. Karel.
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