Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:37:14 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: XFree86-4.0.2 to XFree86-4.1.0: To upgrade or not? Message-ID: <20011114073714.B22520@sheol.localdomain>
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Hello All. I'm currently running XF86-4.0.2 as distributed as a package on FreeBSD-4.2REL. The video is i810. My question is simple, and I hope the answer is also: Is it worth upgrading to XF86-4.1.0? What I know is improved is the switching from the X session to the consoles and back (pardon the inaccurate terminology), and DRI is supported, but after that, what is the impetus? I don't run "exotic stuff", I'm not a gamer, and I foresee no need for OpenGL and the like. I am, however, trying to get Xine to play nice on FreeBSD, and I wonder if a newer XF86 version plays into this effort. I see that XF86-4.1.0 is not distributed as a FreeBSD package, only as a port. My inclination then is to install the FreeBSD binaries supplied by XFree86. However, I see the FreeBSD port distribution has several patches to the source. Is this supposed to raise flags telling me that installing the port results in a better system, or are those patches included in the XFree86 binaries? Finally, come the install, is renaming the two existing X directories sufficient to keep them safe, or must they be backed up and removed? OK, so maybe the answer won't be simple. ;-, TIA, Dave -- It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes an 800Mhz P3 to run Windows XP. Something is wrong here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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