[linux] comments/experiences with X.org

[oabram at u.washington.edu]

I'm using xorg-x11-6.7.0. Also in gentoo but with a radeon 9800 pro. Works fine with the ati drivers. Give it a go.

Abe


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Marshall Bjerke wrote:

> I'm also using xorg-x11-6.8.0.  It was an easy install in gentoo (emerge 
> xorg-x11) which is the same as it is for xfree.  The new eyecandy stuff is cool 
> but pretty useless at this point because no windowmanagers take advantage of it 
> natively yet.  You won't notice any performance differences between this and 
> xfree most likely but the switch is easy enough (the configs are even backwards 
> compatible) so I say go for it :)
>
> I'm using an nvidia 5950u and the drivers, including opengl, work great.
>
> -Marshall
>
> Yi Qiang wrote:
>
>> On 18:01 Thu 23 Sep     , Jonathan Nicol wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I'm curious if anyone is using X.org, and has comments about their 
>>> experience. Is it better than xfree? More/less difficult to install 
>>> properly? Has anyone changed from xfree to x.org? Problems or easy? Any 
>>> issues with OpenGL, or nvidia drivers?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> *=*=*=*=*
>>> Jonathan Nicol, Client Services
>>> Computing & Communications
>>> Mary Gates Hall, Suite 011
>>> ph 206.543.5970 fax 206.221.6802
>>>    
>> 
>> I'm using xorg-6.8.0 here.  There are no major differences (except the new 
>> DAMAGE/RENDER/COMPOSITE extensions) that an end user should notice. 
>> Installation is about the same, it still uses the ridiculously old make 
>> system, although there are efforts to autotoolize it.  Nvidia drivers work 
>> fine out of the box.  As far as performance goes, many people reported it to 
>> be faster but I have not noticed any difference here.  It's a wise move to 
>> switch to xorg however since all the major distributions have dropped 
>> XFree86.
>> 
>> -Yi
>>  
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