Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:16:47 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which release of 4.1 supports i810 with XFree86 4.0.1? Message-ID: <20000907091647.A18862@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <33766.968343107@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:11:47AM -0700 References: <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <33766.968343107@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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* Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> [000907 09:12] wrote: > > 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. I don't think that's fair, 4.0.1 sometimes works pretty well for me, I have the dual head stuff setup and it's awesome. It doesn't work at all on my laptop however. I'd say that if you want to upgrade, do a complete backup of your existing X11 directory and if you can't get 4.0.1 working in 20-40 minutes then it's time to save yourself the fustration and go back to 3.3.6. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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