From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 19:53:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C771537B403; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15MhT8-0003hR-00; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:53:46 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6I2rjZ67322; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:53:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:53:45 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any benefits to XFree86 4 on a laptop? Message-ID: <20010718035344.A67305@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010717171937.A61988@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010718121640.E69861@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010718121640.E69861@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:40PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:40PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: | On Tuesday, 17 July 2001 at 17:19:37 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | > | > No fancy graphics chips or anything, I just wondered if it is more | > efficient, stable, or otherwise better. | | (looks for question.) | | Ah, | | > Subject: Re: any benefits to XFree86 4 on a laptop? | | Well, one significant benefit is that it supports more laptop graphics | chip sets. Both of my latest laptops (Dell Inspiron 7500, IBM | ThinkPad T22) need it to run at all . IIUC, I need to rebuild *ALL* of my X apps, correct? jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message