I tried installing 4.0 today using yast and did it ever screw up my system. For one, it would only run as root and it screwed up my fonts. Ended up going back to 3.3.6. I didn't have time to fool around with it and see what went wrong but will try it again some day. And I did try sax2 and it does work nice. On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote: > * Nick Zentena (zentena@hophead.dyndns.org) [000324 16:38]: > > >

I installed 4.0 today. It wasn't totally painless but wasn't extreme > > either. If you don't feel comfortable editing files by hand I wouldn't > > do it. It looks better to me then 3.3.6 did. Even netscape looks pretty > > good-) > > Yep, 4.0 does look good and in my experience is the only way to get a usable > X when using one of the 2.3.99 kernels. Just keep in mind that besides 3Dfx > there is no 3D support in XFree86 4.0. So if you're using another brand > video card, Q3 or any other 3D game is out of the question ATM. > > <shameless plug> > BTW, if you buy 6.4, you'll get a nifty configuration tool for XFree86 4.0, > SaX2, along with the other goodies ;-) > > Philipp

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* Kaare Rasmussen (kar@webline.dk) [20000325 18:32]:

Does XFree86 4.0 support antialiased fonts?

No, it does not. This would afford a major redesign of X11. For X, glyphs are b/w bitmaps. For antaliasing these would have to be grayscale bitmaps. That would afford changing the X protocoll and *all* clients dealing with fonts, a major effort. So even if XFree86 would incorporate such changes, it would be incompatible to the rest of the X11 world as e.g. a Solaris X client wouldn't understand the protocoll used by a font server running on a XFree86 based machine. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany #define NINODE 50 /* number of in core inodes */ #define NPROC 30 /* max number of processes */ -- Version 7 UNIX fuer PDP 11, /usr/include/sys/param.h -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/