From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 7 10:26:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7701E37B401 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7C943E31 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g67HPI48080075; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g67HPIDb092108; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g67HPBKA092095; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:25:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200207071725.g67HPBKA092095@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: Better to make XFree86-4 when XFree86-3 isn't running? In-Reply-To: <20020707210226.P98680-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> To: Dmitry Morozovsky Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 10:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Dave Uhring , Jason Porter , freebsd-stable Reply-To: frank@exit.com X-Copyright0: Copyright 2002 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Hmm... Reading through, I did not find any very specific "it does not > work" cases. However, I see that many people found ATI cards as a PITA. > > ... the problem is that I have no spare hardware to test it thoroughly, > and my workstation works also as central monitoring point for our network > ;-) > > Maybe I'll try "ati*.o from 4.1" way... > > Stangely enough, there is no info about ATI<->XFree86 4.2 at > http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status6.html I'm using a Radeon 8500 128MB card. I had problems with 4.2.0 (it worked but a few things were a tad flaky, especially Xvideo), but I've been updating from the XFree86 CVS tree and it is working better and better. Just one data point. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message