Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:57:35 -0800 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Cc: Sergio Carrillo <scarrillo@arsystel.com> Subject: Re: X.Org Message-ID: <200406251957.35212.akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <40DCEE66.5070401@alumni.rice.edu> References: <200406251853.45449.akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> <40DCED51.4070003@arsystel.com> <40DCEE66.5070401@alumni.rice.edu>
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On Friday 25 June 2004 07:32 pm, Jon Noack wrote: > On 06/25/04 22:28, Sergio Carrillo wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:53:45PM -0800, 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. > >> > >> The x.org packages don't yet build on the cluster. > > > > I'm running it, the only problem is to deal with dependencies in some > > ports (pkdb -F). I needed it to support radeon9600, but don't want to > > install the Xfree-snap server: > > For what it's worth, I used the xfree86-snap server with no problems for > several months on an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. > > Jon Thanks for the responses, I think I'll give it a try. FWIW, I've been running XFree86-4.4 cvsupped and compiled from their tree with no problems for about a month and a half. Now I need to uninstall and install an X port properly before my ports get totally out of sync. X.Org seems to be where things are heading. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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