Critical : My X went down

[manish jain]

Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 4/5/09, manish jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In attempting to unlock some Python related mysteries (which neither
>> python-list nor python-help would respond to despite repeated queries),
>> I found myself recursively portupgrading myself right up the xorg
>> distribution. That wasn't half as bad as the fact that - after all that
>> effort - X does not even start now.
> 
> Use vesa driver instead, and direct intel driver questions to Xorg lists.
> i810, driver that you used with old Xorg is abandoned and replaced with intel.
> 
> 

Hello Paul,

Thanks for the information. But, as for the plan of action, I think I'll 
go the other way round. I'll reinstall FreeBSD 7.1 from scratch and just 
make sure nobody ever touches my xorg setup again. I could upgrade my 
system, yes, but my Celeron Coppermine 800 MHz + Intel 810-based 
motherboard system was running just as fast as the fancy 2.0 GHz PC's at 
IBM where I was working last year.

BTW, I seriously wish I were a billionaire so that I could help FreeBSD 
get rid of this X client-server nuisance forever. I have never seen 
anything so ill-conceived, pathetically fragmented (modular is the 
polite way of referring to it), inefficient and featureless.

The Mission looks Impossible-3 but, for starters, I just got a job offer 
yesterday from a multinational where the pay is roughly 50% higher.

So maybe, someday,  ...     :-)

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Thank you and Regards
Manish Jain
invalid.pointer at gmail.com
+91-99830-62246

NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.