Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[Anthony Edwards <anthony.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:21:55PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:26 pm, Anthony Edwards wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But with all due respect Anthony, that tells me nothing!
> Sounds like a marketing droid.
> 
> Much more Satisfactorily???!!!  Like HOW?  What was
> wrong with Xfree that you don't see in Xorg?  
> 
> A little specificity man !   ;-)

The specificity was in my posting.  I successfully created a perfectly
working X server configuration using X.Org X11R6.7.0 in under five
minutes (admittedly I didn't include that time figure) on FreeBSD
by carrying out the procedure detailed precisely and exactly in
my posting.  In contrast, I have so far failed to achieve a working
XFree86 4.3.0 configuration on the same machine running Debian Testing.

My liking for X.Org, as opposed to XFree86 4.3.*, is due to that
ease of configuration.  I also stated that this is less of an issue
with SuSE due to YaST.  I have little or no interest in the licensing
issues.

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Anthony Edwards
anthony.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx