X.Org

Jon Noack noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Fri Jun 25 20:33:07 PDT 2004


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


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