Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:11:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <199804071811.UAA03889@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199804070349.UAA00237@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Apr 6, 98 08:49:04 pm"
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As Mike Smith wrote... > > I've been asked for a summary, so here it is: [snip] > > So, people sound pleased and I'll probably be getting in the near term. Make this: _most_ people are pleased (Mike obviously is not) > > Snippets of received comments: > > .... > > Not unless you are willing to buy Xaccel. XFree86 doesn't support it > > very well at all. Xaccel 4.01 is pretty good, modulo some > > font-handling bugs. > > .... > > This is my comment, I'll make it again. I have an MII, I have the > latest XFree86, and Xaccel 4.01. Xaccel is sufficiently buggy that I > have to use XFree occasionally (colour and font handling). I would > not want to be using it on a regular basis (it reminds me of the old > days with the S3 server in its infancy), however, as the XFree server > has a number of extremely annoying and distracting cosmetic problems. > > If you can live with swarming ants, random pixel garbage and occasional > snow, by all means go for it. Otherwise, hang back a few months and > let the nice XFree MII hackers finish the job. Maybe I'm overlooking something, but in re-reading your original comment I get the impression that you are quite a bit more distressed in your followup comment than in the original one. Sorry if you feel mis-interpreted.. But for some reason the majority of the people don't have problems ?? Don't ask me why. NB I also found: http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html when looking for Matrox info. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl __________________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD ______ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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