From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 13 13:04:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12696 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ord-2.pilot.net (mail-ord-2.pilot.net [205.243.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12672; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from John_Sconieres@ama-assn.org) Received: from unknown-31-162.ama-assn.org ([204.48.31.162]) by mail-ord-2.pilot.net (Pilot/) with ESMTP id PAA28856; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:04:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gateway.ama-assn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by unknown-31-162.ama-assn.org with SMTP id PAA07721; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:04:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gateway.ama-assn.org id AA26255 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0); Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:03:54 -0500 Received: by gateway.ama-assn.org (Internal Mail Agent-1); Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:03:54 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:00:38 -0500 From: John Sconiers To: John_Sconieres@ama-assn.org, jcwells@u.washington.edu Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Metro-X -vs Accelerated-X Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II >>> "Jason C. Wells" 10/13 2:36 PM >>> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ I was told the commercial X servers would be faster with better display. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message