[Sussex] Xfree and Xorg

[Steve Williams]

Matt,

I've emerged Xorg and the basic answer is No, there isn't yet a great deal of 
difference.

One minor difference I have noticed are that the xorg.conf setup for my 
Intellimouse Explorer is more finicky than the Xfree equivalent, and I had to 
be more specific about button and z-axis mapping.

Another is that gnome biased apps (Mozilla?, Evolution and Ethereal are ones 
that spring to mind) seem to render application fonts very small using XFont 
Server, but at least they are readable.

The unified nVidia 1-5336 driver compiled and runs just fine with xorg.

Hope this helps.

Steve W.


On Wednesday 09 June 2004 22:59, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> All,
>
> At the risk of kicking off healthy debate about whether one is better
> than the other, I currently have XFree86 4.3.0 installed on my Gentoo
> box.  I've noticed that X.org's X11 implementation is in portage (even
> if it is masked) and was wondering if there would be a huge advantage to
> swapping from Xfree to X.org.
>
> I've googled and tried to make sense of who owns what and what the
> advantages are, but everyone else seems just as confused.
>
> Can someone enlighten me?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Matt
>
>
> This email has been independently scanned for viruses and any virus
> detected has been removed using McAfee anti-virus software
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sussex mailing list
> Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex