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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!park.uvcc.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: 386bsd new release - when? Message-ID: <1993Sep2.173002.28921@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <2645oo$16v@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Sep2.121740.23140@sophia.smith.edu> <1993Sep2.124324.12716@gmd.de> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 17:30:02 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Sep2.124324.12716@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes: > >Be patient. What Marc is talking about is something which doesn't exist for >the public. This is alpha/beta code of the coming XFree86-2.0 and is available >for a restricted group only. The S3-805 is supported in 2.0, as well as >a number of other S3, Mach, 8514, Cirrus - based accelerated boards. >And this is not only a feature for NetBSD-0.9, but this will work on >any *BSD-of-the-day. So availability of Xservers alone is no reason to >move to 0.9; of course, there might be other good reasons to do this. Is this based on Amancio Hasty's S3 code? My experience is that the XS3 code does *not* work on NetBSD 0.9; of course, the 0.9 system I have was a 0.8 upgrade, but I've rebuilt since then with the new sources, and it still fails after changing video modes. I like the architecture stuff (anybody else up for an Indy port?), but I guess I didn't realize exactly how much I had hacked my kernel until I tried to reconcile the differences. Right now, I'm running vanilla 0.9 sources (on one box) and the XS3 I was running fails after blowing the video mode out. So for right now, moving to 0.9 has been a loss for me. If X is your thing (it's one of mine), I'd say stay at 0.8 until the new XFree86-2.0 is let out or until the XS3 compatability is worked out. PS: I *do* hope that Amancio's work is what the S3 support is about... I'd hate to downgrade from ~146k X stones -- more than 4 times faster than a SparcStation 2 with a CG6 accelerator (almost 5 times!). Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.