From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 11:44:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20656 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA20552 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (root@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.7.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id UAA06701 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:43:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id UAA13148 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:36:08 +0100 (MET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.4/8.7.3) id TAA00502; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:31:17 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial X servers for FreeBSD References: <87k9ogr1gm.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 10 Feb 1997 19:31:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: The Hermit Hacker's message of Sun, 9 Feb 1997 06:51:30 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <87sp34o6mi.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.11/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Sun, 9 Feb 1997 06:51:30 -0400 (AST), The Hermit Hacker >> said: THH> On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Hr.Ladavac wrote: >> E-mail message from Peter Mutsaers contained: >> > >> > Which commercial X servers are available for FreeBSD? >> > >> > I need one since XFree doesn't support my laptop with TFT and cirrus >> > logic 7543 well enough (no good centering). Also, text modes are >> > completely messed when I run the current (3.2 or 3.2A) XFree. >> > >> > I tried the demo of Accelerated X and it runs fine. But it is way too >> > expensive ($250). >> >> Up to recently it was $99 for personal unices (*BSD and Linux) Since >> when did that change? >> THH> And ppl wonder why commercial software developers stay away THH> from the Free Unix(es)? $250 is just too much for just a personal laptop for home use only. Then I'd rather use the somewhat broken Xfree server (for my cl7543) and see that a good version will appear soon. The performance doesn't really matter to me. -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have