Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:37:12 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <3B6973A8.8030407@lmc.ericsson.se> 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>
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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
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