Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:25:49 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.xs4all.nl> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: commercial X server? Message-ID: <20040708122549.GA39258@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200406250835.59705.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20040624113511.GA31152@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <200406241204.44669.kirk@strauser.com> <20040625095429.GA33857@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <200406250835.59705.kirk@strauser.com>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:35:45AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 2004-06-25 04:54 am, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > > > In the first place stability, and as a bonus maybe some speed-up. I'm > > currently using the XFree86-4 port, and X screws up so often (daily) and > > badly (no console, ctrl-alt-backspace useless) that I'd like to try > > alternatives. > > From http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/RELNOTES3.html#8 : > > 3.3. Video Driver Enhancements > > Several stability issues with the support for the Intel 830M, 845G, > 852GM, 855GM and 865G integrated graphics chipsets have been fixed. > > This might be an excellent time to upgrade to the X.org distribution. Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware that the Xorg version in ports was already ahead of the XFree86 port. I lurked a bit on the lists for tips on upgrading (enough material to read) and the update a couple of days ago went smooth. It looks like stability improved but it's difficult to say at this stage as I also had an X crash with the new X.org distribution (again while using OpenOffice). But if it crashes only weekly instead of daily that's of course an improvement. Karel.
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