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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) Subject: Re: Need Ideal 386bsd config Message-ID: <1993Mar24.083141.4482@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <C4B60p.8J4@csisun.uucp> <1ood7sINNi4n@hobbes.telco-nac.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 08:31:41 GMT Lines: 49 In article <1ood7sINNi4n@hobbes.telco-nac.com> dave@telco-nac.com (David Cornejo) writes: >In article <C4B60p.8J4@csisun.uucp> jburnes@csisun.uucp (Jim Burnes) writes: >>Any suggestions on what the ideal hardware configuration is >>for a high performance 386bsd machine with X window? >> > [stuff deleted..] >> >>Actix GraphicsEngine 32. Amancio Hasty (of XS3 fame) says it does >>120k Xstones. (mebbe it was 100k). >> > >I greatly respect Amancio Hastys work on XS3, but I'm wondering if XS3 >is the way to go right now. It seems there are, shall we say, frictions >between Amancio and the XFree team. I haven't actually tried XS3 >with XFree 1.2, but as near as I can figure, if there is a problem >neither side seems inclined to support this configuration. I have >heard that someone (the XS3 team? (Amancio is not a member?)) is >adding XS3 or its equivalent into a future release of XFree. I >probably have some major details wrong here, but I think that I'm >not the only one - can someone 'official' comment? There have been quite a few "official" comments posted about this (most probably in comp.windows.x.i386unix). Work is currently in progress to add support for S3, 8514/A, Mach8, and possibly a few other accelerated chipsets to version 2.0 of XFree86. There is still a lot to be done, and we have no prediction of a release date (all I can say is that it won't be before June '93). Amancio has chosen to not be involved with the XFree86 group working on this -- and I wouldn't want to overstate any apparent "frictions" between him and us. As for using the XS3 server with the XFree86 clients and libraries -- I don't see that there should be any problems. There may however be incompatibilities between Xconfig formats. When it comes to support, you need to identify if the problem is in the server or clients/libs and contact the appropriate group. If you want an X server for S3 today, then XS3 is definitely the way to go. David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was so satisfied, deep down inside, like a hand in a velvet glove -- AC/DC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------