From motteler@motteler.clark.net Fri Feb 20 18:34:23 1998
From: motteler@motteler.clark.net
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Accelerated-X
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:34:23 +0100
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Bob Gordon writes:

> I'd appreciate very much hearing from people who run Accelerated-X.
> The reason I'm interested in it is that they support Matrox
> Millenium II AGP boards.  However, I downloaded their demo and was
> quite underwhelmed.

I've been running Accelerated-X for several years, on a number of
machines, most recently with various Matrox cards.  Right now I'm
running a mix of Accelerated-X and XFree/SuSE servers on machines
with Matrox II and one with a Matrox Mystique card.

The accelerated X-servers are a bit faster than XFree, and will
often support more card features, such as a mix of 8 and 24 bit
color on boards that support it.  (That allowed me to run Wabi and
still have 24 bit color at other times.)  On the down side, both
their 3.1 and 4.1 releases initially had buggy Matrox drivers--the
first 3.1 driver would hang the system at unexpected times, a major
irritation!--though patches appeared fairly quickly at their FTP
site, <A HREF=3D"ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates"><A HREF=3D"ftp://ftp.xig.com/=
pub/updates</A">ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates</A</A>> .

In addition to the buggy drivers, I had problems with the way the
4.1 release was bundled.  All their earlier releases installed
cleanly over XFree86 (well, aside from a problem with "compressed"
vs "gzipped" fonts) but even the "minimal" 4.1 install stomped on
a lot of XFree stuff it should have left alone (including the nice
color xterms!).  That was fixable by reinstalling XFree, but was
still an irritation.  Also, the latest XFree uses the XKB extensions,
and needed slightly different xmodmap commands for such things as
turning the "windows" key on 104-key keyboards into a control (or
other useful) key.


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