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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!dode.demon.co.uk!jurek From: Jerzy A Mlotkiewicz <jurek@dode.demon.co.uk> 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,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Why not buy Matrox Millennium Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 21:47:43 +0100 Organization: Home Lines: 63 Distribution: world Message-ID: <0ns8fAAvbkDyEwNQ@dode.demon.co.uk> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <stephenkDvp30A.366@netcom.com> <4u7hv4$jcd@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <slrn50epup.vrk.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4u9oeg$91j@rigel.tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <32093E50.39EB@aloha.net> <slrn50ipqh.a9.cbbrowne@dantzig.brownes.org> <32097C81.167EB0E7@star-gate.com> <3209F875.3652CCE1@pobox.com> <slrn50jupd.nc2.knaff@choiseul.inrialpes.fr> <4ucvq1$k55@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <320B2105.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> <87viesy5z0.fsf@xeno.xinside.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dode.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dode.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.12 <NpdrMmYkxMjBncUnYO$ce404CP> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:20212 comp.os.linux.development.system:29587 comp.os.linux.x:37759 comp.os.linux.hardware:47240 comp.os.linux.setup:68198 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1023 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4578 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4353 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25310 misc.consumers:94172 In article <87viesy5z0.fsf@xeno.xinside.com>, Thomas Roell <roell@xinside.com> writes >In article <320B2105.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> Robert Withrow ><bwithrow@baynetworks.com> writes: > >> YMMV. The Xinside (1.3 update 4) server has several bugs that the Xfree >> server doesn't. And I've gotten zero response from Xinside about these >> bugs after several mails and calls. At least with the Xfree server I >> have a chance of getting the bugs fixed. With the Xinside server I >> am at the mercy of Xinside, and they don't seem to be too worked up >> about fixing the problems. > >Hehe ... Usually the bugs are fixed in either the next version or in >an update. Haven't seen your latest bugreports however ... > >> 1) The server prevents Netscape from running Applets. > >That's news to me. I would guess this is more a Netscape problem, like >the one where Netscape works not correctly with 16bpp. Because >Accelerated-X offers more resolutions and colordepths than any other >X-Server, your chance of running into those bugs is higher ... > >> 2) Authentication problems with some applications (Xlockmore, >> XMCD). > >We are using the standard authentication. Because of export >regulations the XDM authentication (which requires DES) cannot be >shipped commercially. However I have never seen a problem because of >this. Xlockmore and so on look more like the usual 'running it remote >with trying an excluse grab' problem. > >> 3) Switching to a VT and back to windows leaves some windows >> undrawn. > >Yes, I have to admit that bug. A 'xrefresh' can cure this. > >> 4) Server occationaly crashes (althogh this hasn't happend >> when I was using it. It seems to happen at night....at >> random times not related to cron scripts). > >This can happen if you are running low on memory. > >- Thomas > Surely the aim of the Xfree project is to provide good software without having to charge the grossly over-inflated pricings that come with buying software from a company whose sole aim is to make a profit.. ( Microsoft springs to mind on that note, with last yr's release of a heavily bugged Win 95 ) If someone has to buy an X server rather than get it for free or some time spend downloading it, it would be better to buy it from Sun Microsystems... Solaris for example, will be fixed immediately should there be a bug found by a user.. fixes have been known to be out VERY quickly.. Apart from that.. who needs to pay for an X server anyway? Xfree is very capable. I use it almost every day on a pc running Linux with only a 1 mb cirrus logic 5440M card - no flicker problems at all. -- Jerzy A Mlotkiewicz