Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:06:50 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <3B696C8A.4B41A9F1@mitre.org> References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B69550D.3060803@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010802143532.A11148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B695AEE.7010904@lmc.ericsson.se> <20010802150257.A11372@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:51:42AM -0400, Antoine Beaupre (LMC) wrote: > | Not all graphic cards are compatible. > | > | Apart from that, I had no problems. > | > | Oh, and say goodbye to your lovely XF86Setup. It's gone. that really > | sucks. I had problems configuring my video card/screen combo because of > | that. > > Other than modular design and some new cards supported, what is the > advantage, if any? My card is supported in both 3.3.6 and 4.x. Vastly improved 2d performance on some cards. Playing MPGs in 3.3.6 used to leave me with something like mtvp (this was some time ago) eating 30% of the CPU and X eating the other 70% (for an occasionally choppy picture). Now I routinely run stuff full screen and X is hardly even a factor in the CPU calculation. Xpilot is actually _smooth_ under XFree 4, whereas it was a bit choppy inder 3.x. Also, the 3D accelleration actually works (I have a Matrox G200 card). I never managed to get it working with the seperate glx driver, but that was probably just me. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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