From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 18 20:52: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5CC37B412 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA01522; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:52:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA26482; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:52:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from root@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8J3q3352004; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:52:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.11.6/8.11.1av) id f8J3q1x51996; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:52:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:52:01 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: j mckitrick Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Why does installing X require the compat3x and compat4x dists Message-ID: <20010919055201.A51892@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt Mail-Followup-To: Gunnar Flygt , j mckitrick , FreeBSD Stable References: <20010918012828.A98117@dragon.nuxi.com> <008301c1405d$0aa33990$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu> <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010918173514.B51703@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:35:14PM +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:35:14PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > 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. I've ran 4.x since 4.0.1 came out. On 7 different boxes including one laptop. No problems, except for the config utility xf86cfg that have worked on only one of the machines. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message