From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 18 9:45: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4948A37B40A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.cc.gatech.edu (felix.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.107.11]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19333 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:44:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from thor (thor.cnd.gatech.edu [199.77.147.56]) by felix.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA11521 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:44:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <006001c14061$b7050750$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> From: "Jeff Lee" To: References: <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com> <008301c1405d$0aa33990$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:48:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When I installed linux-mandrake, it installed XFree86 4.0 and worked fine, but under FreeBSD it wouldn't work. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "j mckitrick" To: "Jeff Lee" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists > On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:14:49PM -0400, Jeff Lee wrote: > | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > | Hash: SHA1 > | > | I've never understood that either, but I assumed that someone had > | a good reason for it. Why is XFree86 3.3.6 installed by default > | instead of 4.X? > > I *believe* for two reasons: > > When 4.x came out, it was considered less secure. > 4.x didn't support as many chipsets as 3.x, so for maximum > useability, they just go with 3.x. > > I've tried getting 4.x to work on my machine and it doesn't. I'll > try again when I can install from CD, or at least install the > latest port, which might work better. > > jcm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBO6d6zeMSWg0DnoGmEQJCbQCgxM7AeI1UN1FadAB6nQtTeOE+BpYAoKPh +MzcoGlmvsh34iWo3OuJ8ntH =SBES -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message