Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:42:15 -0600 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: xfree86 4? Message-ID: <200201070742.g077gEM11665@midway.uchicago.edu>
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What are the plans about replacing XFree86 3.3.6 with XFree86 4? The -current archives have a message saying this replacement already took place last October, but the JP SNAP I installed last November certainly wasn't aware of that fact, and the current.freebsd.org snapshot from January 6 still lists 3.3.6 as well. Two more months and it will be two years since XFree86-4.0... Looking at xfree86.org's comparisons of supported video cards, it seems quite obvious that XFree86 4 supports almost everything 3 did, and a lot more. I just got a computer with a nvidia GeForce2 GTS - not exactly a new card, but completely unsupported in 3.3.6 - but well supported in 4.1.0. 3.3.6 is over two years old, and none of the ATI or nvidia cards (and that's just about all desktops, no?) made since then are supported. There's always the port, but integration would be a much more friendly solution. I must be growing lazy :) Out-of-the-box XFree86 4 and easy PPPoE setup led me to use RedHat (desk top only - the server's still FreeBSD, of course), but I'm missing FreeBSD. Apologies if this has already been discussed to death, but such discussions aren't in the -current or -stable archives :) -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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