From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 13 12:36:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07074 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07067; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:36:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA22632; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:36:16 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id MAA03207; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:36:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: John Sconiers cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Metro-X -vs Accelerated-X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, John Sconiers wrote: >I am thinking of investing in a commercial x-windows display server. >Has anyone tried out Metro-x and accelerated-x and how do they stack up >against each other. Is it even worth buying a commercial x-server or >should I stay with Xfree86. The only reason I can think of to use commercial X is to get support for a new video card or to get multiheaded servers. There are accelerated servers in XFree86. OBTW, Multiheading will be coming to XFree86 with version 4.0. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message