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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!atlas.onthe.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!ub!library.erc.clarkson.edu!komarimf From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark Komarinski) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 29 Mar 1996 18:48:29 GMT Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4jhb9t$neu@library.erc.clarkson.edu> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> <ragnaroek1996Mar28.063723.8733@news2.compulink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: craft.camp.clarkson.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13867 comp.os.linux.development.system:20305 comp.os.linux.hardware:34878 comp.os.linux.setup:48049 comp.os.linux.x:28043 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:370 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2878 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16308 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2653 Jonathan Walters (jwalters@idirect.com) wrote: : On 26 Mar 1996 23:57:28 GMT, mbr@poitin.gte.com (Mark Rosenthal) : wrote: : >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? : Is it a figment of my imagination or do most modems already compress : any data being transfered. That would make LBX a waste of time. Not if LBX sends less data down the modem to be compressed to begin with. If I remember right, LBX reduces the amount of data being sent down the line, and not acutally compressing it. -Mark -- - Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu Credo quia absurdum est - "I believe because it is absurd"