From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 7 9:12:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B547237B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA33770; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Michel Talon Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which release of 4.1 supports i810 with XFree86 4.0.1? In-Reply-To: Message from Michel Talon of "Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:51:41 +0200." <20000907095140.D373@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 09:11:47 -0700 Message-ID: <33766.968343107@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Perhaps X 4 is beta, but X 3 does not work or work poorly on some video cards > which are amongst the best on the market (GeForce). So a shift to 4.01 will Hmmm. Tell that to my GeForce card - it appears to work just great with 3.3.6 and has for some time now. :) I also don't think that "a shift to 4.01" would be advisable for anyone, no matter what card they have. As others have already eloquently stated, XFree86 4.x is extremely BETA right now and does not even support the full set of cards which 3.3.6 does. It should be considered a developer's release only, and by "developer" I mean "XFree86 developer", e.g. someone suitably skilled in hacking on X servers and capable of assisting the XFree86 project in polishing it up for more general consumption. > To speak for my case, i have received mail that GeForce works with X 3 but my > own works very poorly, if at all. I am obliged to go to 4.01 and install You really should try it for yourself rather than believing the mail you receive since "very poorly" does not describe my own experience at all. 3.3.6 works just fine with all my current graphics cards (Voodoo3, GeForce, G400). - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message