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Bunch of XFree 4.0 comments:
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> So, all you early adopters, what have been your experiences thus
> far? Any major issues? Comments? Praise? Criticism?
>
I've been running it for a while on an S3 Virge/DX. Generally
performance is better across the board, although I'd say stability with
Netscape is a little lower. I'm not sure whether to blame X or my move
to glibc with X, as I recently changed my primary C library to glibc. I
used to have a solid system running Netscape 4.7 (libc5) under X, and
now I tend to lock or bus error Netscape after about 30 min to 1 hr of
heavy use with mulitple windows. However, I don't lose anything but
Netscape, so killing it or just restarting Netscape brings me back up.
Oh, and I built from source and xterm doesn't build for me. But I run
Eterm so it hasn't really been a problem.
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> :I just want to add to Bill's question...
> :Has anyone used a Matrox G400 with X4? Mine just showed up today and I'm
> :having a hard time concentrating on work. I'd just like to know if there are
> :any important pages I should look at before trying to set this thing up.
> :Thanks.
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> Well going by http://www.xfree86.org/4.0/Status.html the G400 is supposed
> to be supported under the mga driver, but supported and actually getting
> it to work the way you would like is usually two different things.
>
I'd guess G200 and G400 are one of the better tested chipsets. A couple
of the major XFree86 contributors run them, and Matrox is actually
providing support to develop the drivers. (Plus the enlightenment guys
run them, so XFree gets feedback when they don't work...)
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> OK, so someone told me that the G400 wouldn't work well with the Utah
> drivers and that I should go with the dri-patched version of X. So I'm
> following their directions (http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIcompile.html) and
> it says to type 'lndir -silent -ignorelinks ../XFree40'. But I get that
> lndir is not a valid file or directory. I've been looking all over the place
> and can't find this thing. So, anyone know where to get lndir?
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I think it's in the X tree, but I'm at work on Solaris and can't check
from here... Check xc/programs for an lndir directory. If it's not
there, then I'll have to at home. (or wait, I can check the XFree86
development site... but our internet access has been flaky for 1 1/2
weeks now... so maybe I can't) hmm, can't find it in the X tree with a
quick browse, but some email archives claim it's part of XFree86. Check
in /usr/X11R6/bin, is it there? Or haven't you installed X previously?
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Kevin Brosius
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