Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:59:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Nils Holland <nils@frozenfeelings.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004241740410.19308-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <00042421154700.00349@tempest.ncptiddische.net>
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well, the XFree86 4 port in $PORTSDIR/x11/XFree86-4 works, i've been using it for the last couple of weeks. yes, it's pretty nice, some features are very excellent.. but i've been contemplating rolling back to 3.3.6. i *highly* suggest reading all of your available documentation first, that means seeing the XFree86.org website, and digging up everything you can find. since 4.0 is a rewrite of all the drivers, not all of them that are supported in 3.3.6 are in 4.0. that's just a word of warning. as for the rollback: why? well, i've been having some issues with shared pixmaps, and general lossage in performance. as the server continues to be up (past 3 days, generally) it ends up forcing the restart of my window manager (in this case, enlightenment), anyhow, the window manager is not really at fault, it's the X server, because it's fine, for a short while. -- fjb On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Nils Holland wrote: > Well, more or less by "accident" I discovered that XFree 86 4 is available by > now. WHile I'm not one of the folks who always *have* to have the latest > software right at the minute when it's released, I'm just wondering how I, as a > FreeBSD user, will sooner or later get that stuff. I don't need to have it > right now, but generally speaking: Will it at some time be included in the > ports collection and will I get it then when I update my ports? Or will it be > neccessary for me to obtain it and deal with all the installation "myself"? > > Greetings and *many thanks* to everybody on this mailing list who has helped me > with my *various* questions I've had... > > Nils > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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