Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:51:41 +0200 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which release of 4.1 supports i810 with XFree86 4.0.1? Message-ID: <20000907095140.D373@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009062332060.33649-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <F123O5agnz9gYZNziEH00004abc@hotmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009062332060.33649-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Alan Bindemann wrote: > > > >From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> > > >Don't expect to get lots of help for this; XFree86 4 is very, very beta > > >and has lots of nasty bugs. [snip] > > > > > >I suggest using 3.3.6 for production use. > > > > I was under the impression that the i810 chipset was not supported under > > 3.3.6. Am I mistaken? If so, do I need to rebuild 3.3.6 with some patches > > for i810 support? > > I stay away from such broken hardware. > > As X 4 is beta, don't expect any help from this list for it. > Perhaps X 4 is beta, but X 3 does not work or work poorly on some video cards which are amongst the best on the market (GeForce). So a shift to 4.01 will soon to be considered. Do you think people will only buy Matrox G 400 because it is very well supported by X 3? To speak for my case, i have received mail that GeForce works with X 3 but my own works very poorly, if at all. I am obliged to go to 4.01 and install nVidia drivers under Linux. Corresponding drivers for freebsd are said to be in preparation. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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