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- From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
- Subject: X11 - what's the proverbial "Latest", and what to do...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.013104.5813@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:31:04 GMT
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- Ok, well I have run on my machine before (incessant flamers,
- skip here - I have an ET4000 board and I've run it before) through
- all the versions released to the public of the "Linux X11". Now, my
- problme is that I want a reasonably fast server (ie, XFree86 - the
- ET4000 speedups and such will really impact performance in a positive
- way for my system!). I guess things can be summed up in two questions:
-
- 1. What's the timetable for "Linux X11" 2.0?
-
- - Last I heard was a chicken and egg problem between X11
- and GCC...
-
- 2. If "Linux X11" 2.0 isn't coming too soon, what do I need to
- build an XFree86 server that is Linux-aware (what is
- needed patch-wise to do such things as handling VCs in
- the "right" way and restoring video mode, all that...).
-
- - I've seen one X3861.2E server binary out on sunsite,
- and it looks like it will work, but there's a big
- difference in my book between working and working
- CORRECTLY (handling Linux-isms right).
-
- Any helps would be appreciated, preferably in mail unless it
- would be of benefit to the world. The S/N ratio around here is enough
- to make me stop reading the group. And no, for the "xjxtirn handles all
- that for you" crowd, I can't do killfiles - reading e digests here.
-
- -Craig
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