From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 8:15:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F5F37B40A for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:15:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72F6rD18532; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:06:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72F6qX28990; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:06:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 7221281; Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:06:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3B696C8A.4B41A9F1@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:06:50 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j mckitrick Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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