On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:58:04PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
What's the big deal about this new implementation of X?
From a posting of mine to the freebsd-questions list:
---- begin quoted text ---- You might want to try installing FreeBSD stable without X, and then once installed go to: /usr/ports/x11/xorg And install this meta port of the X.Org X11R6.7.0 release. Once installed, follow the instructions at: http://freedesktop.org/XOrg/ConfigurationHelp I found that the best way to configure X11R6.7.0 is to first run (as root) X -configure, which does an excellent job of detecting my hardware. I next copy the resultant configuration file to the correct location as decribed, then carry out final tweaking using both manual editing of the config file and xorgcfg -textmode. X11R6.7.0 performs much more satisfactorily with my ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card and Iiyaya Vision Master 1451 monitor than I have been able to persuade XFree86 4.3.0 to do, and what helps greatly is that post installation configuration is simplicity itself. ---- end quoted text ---- Admittedly, this is much less of an issue with SuSE due to YaST's undoubted ability to assist with X server configuration, but it is a huge benefit with FreeBSD or (presumably) any other operating system which doesn't come with a capable system wide installation/configuration tool such as YaST. I recently installed Debian Testing on the same machine that the above FreeBSD installation tale refers to. No luck getting a usable XFree86 4.3.0 configuration so far. Now, if Debian (even unstable) came with X.Org 6.*... -- Anthony Edwards * anthony.edwards@uk.easynet.net Abuse Team Manager * Easynet UK Abuse Team Easynet Ltd * DDI: 0161 227 0707 http://www.uk.easynet.net * Fax: 0845 333 4503