cvs commit: ports/x11-fonts/bitstream-vera Makefile

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:18:05AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:18 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:02:10PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > Joe Marcus Clarke p??e v st 16. 02. 2005 v 05:11 +0000:
> > > > marcus      2005-02-16 05:11:47 UTC
> > > > 
> > > >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > > > 
> > > >   Modified files:
> > > >     x11-fonts/bitstream-vera Makefile 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Use the correct plist.
> > > 
> > > You think people still run XFree 3.x ?
> > 
> > They might, actually.  XFree 3.x is still probably useful for people with
> > old hardware/specific cards.
> 
> People with cards sufficiently old to not be supported by current
> X.Org/XFree86 would probably be better off with the vesa driver and
> shadowfb instead.

Probably not.  Some of those cards are probably old enough that their
BIOS does not support the VESA stuff.
If people have cards that old, the rest of the hardware is probably
equally old, in which case the smaller footprint and lower resource
usage of 3.3.6 is highly useful.

> 
> In fact, I don't know what cards are supported natively by 3.3.6 and not
> X.Org.

Mainly old ISA cards.  As an example some old Trident chipsets are listed
as supported by 3.3.6, but not by XFree86 4.x or X.org.
Also some of the older SiS chipsets (like the 86c205) are not listed as 
supported by newer X releases.

I have a couple of such devices lying around.  I really ought to try
them and see if X.org works on them.  (I do know that they worked with 
XFree86 3.x though.)


>  The failure of the transition to XFree86 4.0 was largely due to
> the nonexistent-to-poor s3virge support, if I remember right, and that
> was fixed at least a year ago.

There are more cards that were supported by XFree86 3.x but not by 4.x
Most of those cards are old enough that almost nobody cares about them
anymore, but there are a few still around.


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Erik Trulsson
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