From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 08:11:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA13972 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA13961 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA15338; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:05:24 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA04503; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:05:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id QAA04371; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:55:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607171455.QAA04371@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Trident GUI 9440 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:55:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: sterrett@cts.com, rbezuide@mikom.csir.co.za (R Bezuidenhout) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607171158.NAA21900@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from R Bezuidenhout at "Jul 17, 96 01:58:54 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As R Bezuidenhout wrote: > I had a look on Xfee86 home page and according to them the 3.1.2B (Beta) > have support for just aabout all the Trident chipsets 9440 and 9680 aswell Yep, i know. Anyway, beta servers have a limited lifetime: ^G This is a beta version of XFree86. This binary may be redistributed providing it is not modified in any way. Please send success and problem reports to . This version ( 3.1.2E ) will expire at Sun Sep 1 02:00:00 1996 Waiting for 10 seconds... XFree86 Version 3.1.2E / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) Release Date: May 13 1996 So it's basically useless to ship them along with a FreeBSD release which has a projected lifetime of probably a year or so. (Remember, it's the culmination of the -stable branch, and people running this conservative incarnation of the system usually belong into the group of ``Never change a running system.'') Maybe a 2.2-SNAP CD would be a better place to ship XFree86 betas, but it's possible as well that there will be an XFree86 3.2.0 before the next SNAP happens. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)