From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 10:53:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622E916A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:53:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao02.cox.net (lakermmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D0343D31 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:53:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.localnet.net ([68.11.71.51]) by lakermmtao02.cox.net ESMTP <20040626105240.VGPL923.lakermmtao02.cox.net@dolphin.localnet.net>; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 06:52:40 -0400 Received: from dolphin.localnet.net (localhost.localnet.net [127.0.0.1]) i5QAqeDt001612; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:52:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@dolphin.localnet.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.localnet.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5QAqcGr001611; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:52:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20040626051838.A843@pukruppa.net> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:52:38 -0500 (CDT) Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa cc: Beecher Rintoul cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.Org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: conrads@cox.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:53:20 -0000 On 26-Jun-2004 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > >> I have been using XFree86 for some time now, and it's time to do >> some upgrades. I have heard that the new X.Org might be a better >> choice. >> Does anyone have an opinion on it? With the time involved to compile >> on a 400 MHz box, I thought I would ask before I just dove in. > Generally: it works on my -CURRENT machine. I was very impressed that, on first bringing it up, it correctly identified by video card and selected the correct driver automatically. XFree86's nv driver would list my card as "unknown", whereas X.org properly identifies it as GeForce FX 5200 (of course, I hadn't tried XFree86 4.4, so it may do the same now). > After some typing in # pkgdb -F to fix all dependencies I could > succesfully # portupgrade -a with only one exception: openoffice > (but this is problematic anyway and my old version still runs > without any issues). What's a suitable replacement dependency for XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0? It's the only one that doesn't have an obvious counterpart in X.org. > Some people reported perfomance improvements. I am not sure about > that. I'll reserve judgement here, as I'm only just starting with it, but it *feels* nice. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"