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="ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/updates"><A HREF="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. -- Howard Motteler motteler@umbc.edu Yeah, but *I* have a degree in Linguistics, and *you* are posting to the net using Microsoft Outlook. -- Ayse Sercan -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e