From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 8:44:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from imr1.ericy.com (imr1.ericy.com [208.237.135.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0448B37B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr5.exu.ericsson.se (mr5u3.ericy.com [208.237.135.124]) by imr1.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72FbOp28048; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr5.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72FbOC29808; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:37:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f72FbNA07975; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:22 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QDYH3Z01; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:37:18 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B6973A8.8030407@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:37:12 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. Warning: this is clearly subjective. I haven't run any benchmark of any kind. Some parts are clearly faster. Login from xdm takes much less time, and it seems to me that this is an advantage. :) X does take more memory here, though, IIRC the mem usage from the previous version... The xdm banner looks cute. :) Eh, I just used it for a week. :) A. -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message