On Tuesday 24 July 2001 19:07, LenZ wrote:
Our XFree86 developers made that decision - XFree86 4.x still does not support a wide range of older video cards. Therefore we still keep 3.3.6 around as a fallback. Is that an unwise decision?
Well excuse my ignorance,but I was under impression that newer versions of XFree would support older cards as well,thinking of backwards compatible springs to mind.However on 6.4 version I had both XFree 3.3.x and 4.0.x installed and been switching on the fly between both,something I`m unable to do in 7.2 version.This time it`s Sax2 which is derailing the system.Anyway my card S3Virge is working better under XFree 4.1.0 with Virge driver than SuSE`s prefered SVGA driver.Notably I can get the Netscape`s toolbars in color unlike with the SVGA heheehe!
Our kernel developers (especially Jens Axboe) advised not to enable ide-scsi by default because it can cause trouble on certain hardware and it can change the ordering of SCSI devices. Therefore it is not enabled by default, to be on the safe side. I can`t argue with that. Well done this time and keep up the good work Once a SuSE follower,always the SuSE follower! LenZ ,thanks for the explanations . See ya Alan