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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ehsn19.cen.uiuc.edu!jroberts From: jroberts@ehsn19.cen.uiuc.edu (Jason V. Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 27 Mar 1996 00:31:08 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> Reply-To: jroberts@uiuc.edu (Jason Robertson) NNTP-Posting-Host: ehsn19.cen.uiuc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13718 comp.os.linux.development.system:20081 comp.os.linux.x:27730 comp.os.linux.hardware:34488 comp.os.linux.setup:47432 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:305 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2802 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2581 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16076 In article <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> mbr@gte.com writes: >In article <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, >Thomas Weihrich <Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> wrote: > >>Matrox did point at a source of information - X Inside. > >I sometimes run my X connection over a modem, and it's slower than I'd >like. What does this have to do with whether or not to buy a Matrox >Millennium card? Someday soon, I plan on rebuilding my X server to >include the LBX (low bandwidth X) extension. Can I do this without >source code to the server? I don't think so. Even if I didn't have >this immediate need, you never know what extensions you might want to >add to the server in the future. > >So I think buying any graphics card which restricts me to a >binary-only X server is a BAD PLAN! Not really. LBX seems to have gone the way of the cuckoo, at least for now. I don't think it's in the latest XFree86 betas. Besides, there are other products out to compress X protocol stuff. And a binary X server can have LBX as part of its standard distribution just as well as a source distributed, if LBX ever gets straightened out.