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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!satisfied.apocalypse.org!news2.near.net!ceylon!mbr From: mbr@poitin.gte.com (Mark Rosenthal) 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: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 26 Mar 1996 23:57:28 GMT Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Reply-To: mbr@gte.com NNTP-Posting-Host: poitin.gte.com Keywords: Matrox Millennium Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13778 comp.os.linux.development.system:20198 comp.os.linux.x:27874 comp.os.linux.hardware:34640 comp.os.linux.setup:47683 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:335 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2833 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2614 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16185 In article <4j36ev$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! Anybody from X Inside or Matrox care to explain this one away? -- Mark of the Valley of Roses mbr@gte.com -- Mark of the Valley of Roses mbr@gte.com