From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 9:52:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5DD37B43C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA26985 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:52:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16536 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G00HJK00.A0I; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:52:32 -0400 Message-ID: <39AA98CC.284F47BC@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:52:29 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Cc: William Woods , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree 4.01 questions.... References: <20000828121723.B3541@daemon.kingsqueak.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:48:52AM -0700, William Woods wrote: > > I have a laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600E) running just fine right now with XFree > > 3.3.6. I am debating going to XFree 4.01, but a couple things first. > > > > Are there any major benefits in going to 4.01 ? > > If your setup works, you're happy with it...probably not at this point. > I'm using 4.0.1 for support with chipsets not nearly as well supported > with 3.3.6. It works quite nicely for my ATI and G400 cards. I noticed a significant speedup when I ugraded to 4.0.1 on my G200, especially with apps that blit large areas of the screen repeatedly (games, video players, etc...). -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message